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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The problem on both my laptop and workstation was simply the fact that the root partition (/) was owned by UID=1000 GUI=100. Apparently this is a bug, but a simple `chown root:root /` was sufficient to fix the problem, and I also changed several file-p

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Schafer wrote: > This seems to be a bug in the 2005.* installer. I actually used iirc 2004.[2-3] or something which I still had lying around. That version I did use for both my workstation and laptop. My server was another version (no idea which

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

> -Original Message- > From: Dirk Heinrichs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 August 2005 08:18 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? > > > Am Dienstag, 16. August 2005 09:00 schrieb ext Ra

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

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:26 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:00 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > No. It isn't mounted by you. You own it (at least this directory). Use > > > > > > find / -xdev -

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

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:00 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 "/" dire

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

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:14:41 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Thanks, didn't knew that one. If I understand this right, then 'users' > allows all users to unmount the filesystem, instead of just the user > who did mount it in the first place? Yes, that's it. -- Neil Bothwick The Japanese call

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

Am Dienstag, 16. August 2005 09:00 schrieb ext Ralph Slooten: > Yeah, there are other files scattered throughout the filesystem owned by > me. Some are due to being compiled as me, and installed as root If they were installed as root, they would be owned by root. The reason must be another. But

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

Neil Bothwick wrote: The option you mean is 'user' not 'users'. But I can't imagine how this makes sense on / Actually, both user and users are valid mount options, with slightly different meanings. Neither is applicable here though, because / is mounted by root and both options only affect the

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 ne

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

Am Dienstag, 16. August 2005 07:17 schrieb ext Ralph Slooten: > > What does "ls -ld /" show? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ld / > drwxr-xr-x 20 axllent users 456 Aug 15 20:05 / > > Looks like it's mounted by me ;-) LOL. No. It isn't mounted by you. You own it (at least this directory). Use find

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: > after that > > id ralph > id wife > > will show the differences between the accounts - perhaps ralph is in the > root group? workstation ~ # id axllent uid=1000(axllent) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),10(wheel),18(audio),35(gam

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > What does "ls -ld /" show? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 20 axllent users 456 Aug 15 20:05 / Looks like it's mounted by me ;-) LOL. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDAXbVCt0ZF9kLPvYRAhUeAJ99Gg+ehu

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

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:45:48 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:21:52 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: > > > > Have you tried adding "users" to your fstab? > > > > Have you read the post before answering? > > > > The option you mean is 'user' not 'users'. But I can't imagine how

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

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:21:52 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: > > Have you tried adding "users" to your fstab? > > Have you read the post before answering? > > The option you mean is 'user' not 'users'. But I can't imagine how this > makes sense on / Actually, both user and users are valid mount o

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

Daniel da Veiga wrote: Have you tried adding "users" to your fstab? Have you read the post before answering? The option you mean is 'user' not 'users'. But I can't imagine how this makes sense on / Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gent

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

Have you tried adding "users" to your fstab? On 8/15/05, Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hiya all, > > Now I feel *really* stupid asking this, but for the life of me I cannot > work it out. On two machines here at home I discovered t

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya all, Now I feel *really* stupid asking this, but for the life of me I cannot work it out. On two machines here at home I discovered that I can write as a particular normal user to the root partition (/). This also means I can rename /root to /roo