From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4xq6-0007o5-Sg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:34:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7G9X5V9006074; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:33:05 GMT Received: from dbmail-mx4.orcon.co.nz (loadbalancer2.orcon.net.nz [219.88.242.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7G9ScnQ013518 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:28:39 GMT Received: from sf.rout.dyndns.org (60-234-144-216.bitstream.orcon.net.nz [60.234.144.216]) by dbmail-mx4.orcon.co.nz (8.13.2/8.13.2/Debian-1) with ESMTP id j7G9YE72002346 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:34:15 +1200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <43018F27.6020702@gmail.com> References: <4300DE8A.2090205@gmail.com> <20050815214548.6d3c7205@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <430176D6.1050104@gmail.com> <200508160741.25718.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> <43018F27.6020702@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:26:35 +1200 Message-Id: <1124184395.2213.24.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/1023/Tue Aug 16 08:15:08 2005 on dbmail-mx4.orcon.co.nz X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 01c1bc51-6022-47b4-a23d-30cbe06e53dc X-Archives-Hash: e2bd4529c077b75a8e7e09ee4552c72a On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:00 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > No. It isn't mounted by you. You own it (at least this directory). Use > > > > find / -xdev -uid 1000 > > 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. > > -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list