Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:00 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote:
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> Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > No. It isn't mounted by you. You own it (at least this directory). Use
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> > find / -xdev -uid 1000
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> Ahh, so what you are saying is that I own the "/" directory. Hmm, how
> could that have happened, and on 2 separate machines? I never thought of
> "/" being a directory,

this is unix, everything is a file, so / is a file, it just happens to
be the filetype that is a directory.

Sorry I have no idea how you came to own it though.

> more like the base there initial directories were
> placed on. Anyway, when I get home today from work I'll check and change
> the permissions. Thanks for the heads-up.
>
>

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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>

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