On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:44:20PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> What disturbs me is that
> 
> fishbowl:~> ls -l ~/etc/texmf/ls-R
> -rw-------    1 root     root         1147 2003-02-09 23:25 ls-R
> 
> it is owned by root:root. What the heck? What's root doing in my
> homedirectory? root should have no idea about ~/etc/texmf, and
> I surely can't create files owned by root. What the heck is going on?
> Anyone?

Something's clearly setuid root. Figure out what it is and file a bug
for not dropping privileges appropriately.

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Colin Watson                                  [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]


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