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 1E4y8b-0005MO-Vq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:53:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7G9pcU7012975; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:51:38 GMT Received: from mail.t-systems.cz (mail.t-systems.cz [212.67.76.249]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7G9kgKC006879 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:46:42 GMT Received: from mefisto.t-systems.cz (faust.t-systems.cz [10.246.110.12]) by mail.t-systems.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284CC89E83 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:47:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from andre.t-systems.cz ([10.246.112.240]) by mefisto.t-systems.cz with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:47:14 +0200 Received: andre.t-systems.cz 10.246.112.240 from 10.246.112.176 10.246.112.176 via HTTP with MS-WebStorage 6.5.6944 Received: from frankies by andre.t-systems.cz; 16 Aug 2005 11:47:16 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? From: Frank Schafer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1124184395.2213.24.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> 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> <1124184395.2213.24.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:47:15 +0200 Message-Id: <1124185635.5903.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Aug 2005 09:47:14.0909 (UTC) FILETIME=[7B8C30D0:01C5A247] X-T-Systems_Czech-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-T-Systems_Czech-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-5.828, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -3.30, AWL 0.07, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: frank.schafer@t-systems.cz X-Archives-Salt: afe26c0f-3a73-438b-ac70-df57d95e49fe X-Archives-Hash: b8213f4a9c9205f5b63e32f053f4ad1b On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:26 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > 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. 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 > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list