On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:39:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Don't feel too bad, it's one of my favourite geeky Unix trivia factoid > questions. In 10 years, no-one yet has given the correct answer > immediately!
You need to ask better people :P > It's also very rare to have a file owned by root in a user directory, > and even rarer for the user to spot the oddity. Most folks just don;t > need to know that level of detail I most often see it when editing a user config file as root. The file keeps the original ownership but the ~ backu file is created and owned by root. -- Neil Bothwick -Come, come, why they couldn't hit an elephant from this dist-
pgpINhFZ7MOFx.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
