[AuckLUG] Permissionss history

Justin Cook justin at skull.co.nz
Thu Aug 9 16:20:49 NZST 2007


Beautiful. Cheers Martin!

Martin Shergold wrote:
> On 09/08/07, Justin Cook <justin at skull.co.nz> wrote:
>   
>> Having tripped myself up several times in the past few weeks with
>> poorly-chosen permissions, I'd quite like some sort of permission
>> logging. It'd be very useful to be able to look back several hours or
>> weeks to find out what the permissions on a directory or file were, and
>> when they changed.
>>
>> Does anything like this exist?
>>     
>
> Hey Justin,
>
> While I can't think of anything specific; ls -lR / --ignore=/proc
> --ignore=/sys > permissions-$(date | tr ' ' _).log periodically will
> at least give you a record of your permissions.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin.
>
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