On Sat 16 May 2026 at 14:33:01 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 18:30:57 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 04:09:11PM -0000, CGS wrote: > > > On 2026-05-16, Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 15:22:29 -0000, CGS wrote: > > > > If your / directory was actually owned by someone other than root, then > > > > I'd say it's a good thing that it got fixed. > > > > > > > > > > I'm on a vanilla Trixie and have never touched /, so I'm baffled. > > > > Do you have a user with uid 4242? Does: > > > > grep 4242 /etc/passwd > > > > show any output? > > "id 4242" would be a better choice, just in case there are users > defined in LDAP, NIS, or whatever else people use these days.
Perhaps some "foreign" software mixed up port numbers with IDs? Cheers, David.
