Access denied

[jerome]

Hello All,
I have been experiencing access denied messages for files when users try running programs that they have access to. In order to provide access, I have to constantly change their permissions (chmod) and ownership (chown) to the files in their folders. This happens at least several times a week, and sometimes several times a day depending on the programs that they are running. How can I prevent this from constantly happening each time users logon ? Does it have something to do with their logon scripts, profiles, env variables, !!!!!!

[Chris Henschen]

If the access denied is to FilePro files, you might want to check your permissions to the ~/fp/*clerk and ~/fp/*report files.  They should be something like chmod 4775 with the ownership of filepro.  If the sticky bit isn't set the files may becoming owned by the last login to access it.

[jerome]

Hi Chris,
Thanks for the input. I checked the permissions and this is what I have;

# ls -l *clerk
-rwsrwxrwx   1 filepro  sys       595080 Jun 18  1999 dclerk
# ls -l *report
-rwsrwxrwx   1 filepro  sys       535272 Jun 18  1999 dreport
-rwxrwxrwx   1 filepro  sys        17626 Sep 28  1993 streport

The problem is that it only happens with 2 particular users and this is what their folders look like;

-rw-r--r--       1 root     sys            0 Feb 23  2007 .lastlogin
-rw-------      1 cindy    sys         1228 Sep 24 20:05 .profile
-rw-r--r--       1 root     sys         8929 Feb 23  2007 .wp51.set
-rwxrwxrwx     1 cindy    group       2760 Mar 30  2007 0101.02
-rw-r--r--       1 cindy    group      19238 Mar  1 12:18 ai1603.03
=====================================================

-r--------   1 marlop   auth           0 Mar  8 14:16 .lastlogin
-rw-------   1 root     sys         1228 Sep 24 20:02 .profile
-rw-------   1 marlop   group        887 Sep  6  2007 .profile2
-rw-------   1 marlop   group       1217 Sep  6  2007 .profilex
-rwxrwxrwx   1 241      sys         8929 Mar  5 11:01 .wp51.set
-rwxrwxrwx   1 marlop   group     149318 Nov 13  2007 0601.11
-rw-rw-rw-   1 marlop   group      26047 Mar  5 10:59 ai4913.03
-rw-r--r--   1 marlop   group     152335 Mar  2 14:43 ailtr0303.0310
=============================================================
What happens is that i would have to alter the permissions on the ai1603.03 file, the ai4913.03 and the ailtr0303.0310.

I'm afraid that if I change the clerk and report filepro files that it will start affecting everyone.

any thoughts.