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

[Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@t-systems.cz>]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:26 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> 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
> > > 
> > > 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.

This seems to be a bug in the 2005.* installer.

> 
> > 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 <nick@rout.co.nz>
> 
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