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Have you tried adding "users" to your fstab? |
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On 8/15/05, Ralph Slooten <axllent@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hiya all, |
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> Now I feel *really* stupid asking this, but for the life of me I cannot |
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> work it out. On two machines here at home I discovered that I can write |
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> as a particular normal user to the root partition (/). This also means I |
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> can rename /root to /root1 if I want (I just tried), and create / delete |
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> files on / too. The strange thing is this does not work for another |
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> account (wife's) on the same machine, which seems to have the same |
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> permissions. It's almost like / is getting mounted by user "axllent" |
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> here. Other partitions that get mounted do not work, just / |
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> I have checked fstab: |
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> /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0 |
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> In /etc/lilo.conf (on one machine that uses it) I have: |
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> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.10 |
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> label="2.6.11.10" |
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> root=/dev/hda3 |
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> vga=791 |
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> read-only |
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> the permissions of /dev/hda3 are: |
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> axllent@workstation ~ $ ll /dev/hda3 |
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> lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Aug 15 18:55 /dev/hda3 -> |
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> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 |
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> axllent@workstation ~ $ ll /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 |
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> brw------- 1 root root 3, 3 Jan 1 1970 |
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> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 |
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> My groups for this user on both machines are: |
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> wheel audio cdrom games cdrw usb users portage |
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> & |
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> wheel audio at usb users |
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> My wife who cannot write to / has |
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> wheel audio games usb users |
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> Using Reiserfs3. |
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> Does anyone have any idea what's causing this, and possibly how I can |
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> make / read-only? |
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> Greetings |
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> Ralph |
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