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Operating Systems BSD FreeBSD abnormal permission changes in /home Post 302522658 by brightstorm on Monday 16th of May 2011 08:47:45 AM
Old 05-16-2011
Hi Celtic,

Thanks for the response and sorry for my lack of response, I was pretty busy the rest of the week. I have dug deeper into this and while there are "repository servers" there are no trace of any user management system/scripts and there is also no trace of any strange jobs.

I am closing in on the "periodic daily" as the likely culprit. I have set some monitoring up which sounds an alert at pretty much the same time as periodic daily runs

Code:
1       3       *       *       *       root    periodic daily

I'm probably going to have to dissect the /etc/periodic/daily stuff to try to find evidence for this (or either just uncomment periodic for a day or two and see if the permissions behave). According to man periodic it just executes shell scripts in /etc/periodic/daily|weekly|monthly|security.
 

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