On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:05:01PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Yes my figures are very similar to yours. But even after a reboot I still > cannot burn a back up disk.
Do not look at the NUMBERS. OWNER. GROUP. PERMISSIONS. The numbers mean nothing. > On 4/28/23 9:04 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Make sure you get the ownership and permissions correct. > > > > unicorn:/var$ /bin/ls -ld */ > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 22 06:25 backups/ > > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 31 2022 cache/ > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 2018 games/ > > drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 4096 Jul 31 2022 lib/ > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 Nov 19 2017 local/ See that? Group write. Set-group-id. Group staff. Probably not a big deal, because who the hell uses /var/local for anything, but there is no excuse for not checking the OWNER, GROUP and PERMISSIONS. > > drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 80 Mar 25 16:03 lock/ Group and world write. Sticky bit. > > drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Apr 24 08:12 log/ > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Oct 28 2021 mail/ Group write, setgid. > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 11 2018 opt/ > > drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 4096 Jan 12 2018 qmail/ > > drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 760 Mar 27 15:39 run/ > > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 29 2021 spool/ > > drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Apr 28 21:02 tmp/ Group and world write. Sticky bit. THIS is what matters.
