On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:39:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > I've noticed that, strangely, the effect of the command 'chgrp' > is not permanent: I did > > # chgrp rodolfo /* > > and then > > # ls -l / > > and got the following output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rodolfo]# ls -l / > total 52 > drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:05 bin/ > drwxr-x--x 3 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 boot/ > drwxr-xr-x 17 root rodolfo 3800 Dec 19 15:19 dev/ > drwxr-x--x 71 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 etc/ > drwxr-x--x 4 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 18:53 home/ > drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:31 initrd/ > drwxr-x--x 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:13 lib/ > drwxr-xr-x 7 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 11:48 mnt/ > drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Jan 5 2004 opt/ > dr-xr-xr-x 78 root rodolfo 0 Dec 19 15:19 proc/ > drwx------ 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:08 root/ > drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 sbin/ > drwxr-xr-x 9 root rodolfo 0 Dec 19 15:19 sys/ > drwxrwx-wt 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:20 tmp/ > drwxr-x--x 12 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:07 usr/ > drwxr-x--x 17 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 var/ > > ; then I rebooted the system, did '# ls -l /' again > and this time the output was changed: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rodolfo]# ls -l / > total 52 > drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:05 bin/ > drwxr-x--x 3 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 boot/ > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 3800 Dec 19 15:19 dev/ > drwxr-x--x 71 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 etc/ > drwxr-x--x 4 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 18:53 home/ > drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:31 initrd/ > drwxr-x--x 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:13 lib/ > drwxr-xr-x 7 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 11:48 mnt/ > drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Jan 5 2004 opt/ > dr-xr-xr-x 79 root root 0 Dec 19 15:19 proc/ > drwx------ 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:08 root/ > drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 sbin/ > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 19 15:19 sys/ > drwxrwx-wt 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:20 tmp/ > drwxr-x--x 12 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:07 usr/ > drwxr-x--x 17 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 var/ > > , and even other changes occured later. > How come? > And how to make chgrp's effect not change until I want to?
My guess is msec is changing the permissions back for you. I don't know if /dev, /proc, and /sys need to be group owned by root, but I really question the need to have your entire system group owned by a simple user. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Better to su when you need to, or learn how to set up sudo. Todd
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