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

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:45:48 +0100
Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:21:52 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote:
> 
> > > Have you tried adding "users" to your fstab?
> > 
> > Have you read the post before answering?
> > 
> > The option you mean is 'user' not 'users'. But I can't imagine how this
> > makes sense on /
> 
> Actually, both user and users are valid mount options, with slightly
> different meanings. Neither is applicable here though, because / is
> mounted by root and both options only affect the ability to mount a
> device, not the permission to read/write it.
> 
> What does "ls -ld /" show?
> 

after that 

id ralph
id wife

will show the differences between the accounts - perhaps ralph is in the
root group?

> 
> -- 
> Neil Bothwick
> 
> Windows Error #10: Insufficient money spent in hardware.

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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>

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