-----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-permissions in underlying directories (like usr).
Thanks all for your help Greetings Ralph Ralph Slooten wrote: > 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 /root1 if I want (I just tried), and create / delete > files on / too. The strange thing is this does not work for another > account (wife's) on the same machine, which seems to have the same > permissions. It's almost like / is getting mounted by user "axllent" > here. Other partitions that get mounted do not work, just / > > I have checked fstab: > /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0 > > In /etc/lilo.conf (on one machine that uses it) I have: > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.10 > label="2.6.11.10" > root=/dev/hda3 > vga=791 > read-only > > the permissions of /dev/hda3 are: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ll /dev/hda3 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Aug 15 18:55 /dev/hda3 -> > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ll /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 > brw------- 1 root root 3, 3 Jan 1 1970 > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 > > My groups for this user on both machines are: > wheel audio cdrom games cdrw usb users portage > & > wheel audio at usb users > > My wife who cannot write to / has > wheel audio games usb users > > Using Reiserfs3. > > Does anyone have any idea what's causing this, and possibly how I can > make / read-only? > > Greetings > Ralph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDAg+jCt0ZF9kLPvYRAp4CAJwOFwRHHYQJ2iUWNLSro8/t3Uh4NgCfcsSq LH/k4Y/IpkR8MlneKp6Retg= =sMCd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
