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| From: | Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others? | ||
| Date: | Thu, 10 Mar 2022 06:50:36 | ||
| Message-Id: | t0c73b$17l4$1@ciao.gmane.io | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Root can't write to files owned by others? by Dr Rainer Woitok |
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| 1 | On 09/03/2022 20:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: |
| 2 | > until recently my system behaves sort of strangely: |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > $ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file |
| 5 | > Password: |
| 6 | > tee: /tmp/file: Permission denied |
| 7 | > [...] |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > Since when can't root write to files it doesn't own? And not even, if |
| 10 | > the file has write permission for everybody? |
| 11 | |
| 12 | This is normal, at least when using systemd. To disable this behavior, |
| 13 | you have to set: |
| 14 | |
| 15 | sysctl fs.protected_regular=0 |
| 16 | |
| 17 | But you should know what this means when it comes to security. See: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | https://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-devel/msg252452.html |
| Subject | Author |
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| RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others? | Laurence Perkins <lperkins@×××××××.net> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others? | Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net> |