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On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:39:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Don't feel too bad, it's one of my favourite geeky Unix trivia factoid |
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> questions. In 10 years, no-one yet has given the correct answer |
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> immediately! |
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You need to ask better people :P |
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> It's also very rare to have a file owned by root in a user directory, |
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> and even rarer for the user to spot the oddity. Most folks just don;t |
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> need to know that level of detail |
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I most often see it when editing a user config file as root. The file |
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keeps the original ownership but the ~ backu file is created and owned by |
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root. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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