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From: Ralph Slooten <axllent@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:06:02
Message-Id: 43018F27.6020702@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? by Dirk Heinrichs
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4 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
5 > No. It isn't mounted by you. You own it (at least this directory). Use
6 >
7 > find / -xdev -uid 1000
8
9 Ahh, so what you are saying is that I own the "/" directory. Hmm, how
10 could that have happened, and on 2 separate machines? I never thought of
11 "/" being a directory, more like the base there initial directories were
12 placed on. Anyway, when I get home today from work I'll check and change
13 the permissions. Thanks for the heads-up.
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16 > to find out if more files are owned by that user. Just to be save, repeat it
17 > on /usr, too. If you find files with wrong ownership, run
18 >
19 > find / -xdev -uid 1000 -exec chown root:root {} \;
20
21 Yeah, there are other files scattered throughout the filesystem owned by
22 me. Some are due to being compiled as me, and installed as root, and
23 others I'm not too sure about. Again, thanks for the tips, and I'll do a
24 followup on this once I confirmed /.
25
26 Greetings
27 Ralph
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Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>