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

[Ralph Slooten <axllent@gmail.com>]

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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, 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.


> to find out if more files are owned by that user. Just to be save, repeat it 
> on /usr, too. If you find files with wrong ownership, run
> 
> find / -xdev -uid 1000 -exec chown root:root {} \;

Yeah, there are other files scattered throughout the filesystem owned by
me. Some are due to being compiled as me, and installed as root, and
others I'm not too sure about. Again, thanks for the tips, and I'll do a
followup on this once I confirmed /.

Greetings
Ralph
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