[PLUG] Locating reason for permissions change

Mike C. mconnors1 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 18:37:52 UTC 2016


> Not being aware of what I might have done that caused the permissions to
>> revert I would like to learn if there is some way to log when and why the
>> permissions change. While returning the perms to 777 is easy it's annoying
>> to have to do this unexpectedly.
>>
>>    Ideas wanted.
>>
>> The Linux Audit System is your friend. There should be just enough
> information but not too much,  here (http://www.la-samhna.de/
> library/audit.html) to get to you started using it. Watching 1 file is
> pretty quick and easy.
>
> Cheers!,
>
> Mike
>



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