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From: Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@×××××××××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:53:42
Message-Id: 1124185635.5903.40.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? by Nick Rout
1 On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:26 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:00 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote:
3 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
4 > > Hash: SHA1
5 > >
6 > > Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
7 > > > No. It isn't mounted by you. You own it (at least this directory). Use
8 > > >
9 > > > find / -xdev -uid 1000
10 > >
11 > > Ahh, so what you are saying is that I own the "/" directory. Hmm, how
12 > > could that have happened, and on 2 separate machines? I never thought of
13 > > "/" being a directory,
14 >
15 > this is unix, everything is a file, so / is a file, it just happens to
16 > be the filetype that is a directory.
17 >
18 > Sorry I have no idea how you came to own it though.
19
20 This seems to be a bug in the 2005.* installer.
21
22 >
23 > > more like the base there initial directories were
24 > > placed on. Anyway, when I get home today from work I'll check and change
25 > > the permissions. Thanks for the heads-up.
26 > >
27 > >
28 >
29 > --
30 > Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>
31 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? Ralph Slooten <axllent@×××××.com>