Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:59:09 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: permission problems w/ ordinary user .... Message-ID: <53DD7B4D.90903@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140802234554.GA34503@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <53DD742F.3020408@hiwaay.net> <20140802234554.GA34503@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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On 08/02/14 18:45, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 06:28:47PM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> .... I have been trying to setup the regular user (me, non-root) on my >> newly minted FreeBSD 9.3 box. I tried su-ing from tooy & ssh-ing in as >> me from another box, both give weird results, see the following from my >> syslog: >> >> >> Aug 2 17:59:03 kabini1 ntpd[676]: ntpd 4.2.4p5-a (1) >> Aug 2 17:59:03 kabini1 kernel: . >> Aug 2 18:02:16 kabini1 ntpd[677]: time reset -0.337616 s >> Aug 2 18:17:11 kabini1 su: _secure_path: cannot stat >> /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied >> Aug 2 18:17:11 kabini1 su: _secure_path: cannot stat >> /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied > That could be a symptom of the x permission disappearing. > >> also, the home-directory keeps getting the 'x' permission bit set to off >> by .... something .... > To the best of my knowledge there is nothing in the base system that normally > does that. > > But if the x bit _is_ disappearing, then something is doing a chmod(1) or > chmod(2). > > Do you have any scripts or cron jobs running? Or is there a chmod in one of > your rc files like ~/.profile, ~/.tcshrc or /etc/csh.cshrc? > > You could set the user immutable flag or even the system immutable flag on > that directory (or remount the partition as read-only) and see if you get any > error messages in /var/log/messages. > >> I can ssh in as root no sweat > Yikes. That is usually the first thing I'd disable! > > > Roland I do that (easy root login) on purpose, my LAN is not internet exposed (except when I'm browsing) .... I am thinking that the failed login is somehow resetting the perms, but that is pure conjecture .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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