Msweet's uid must match your wife's uid. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:39:21PM -0800, genuine.penguin.power wrote: > Host machine OS: CentOS 4.8 running SSH server daemon > Remote machine OS: Ubuntu 9.10 > > As I have done many times, I'm doing remote system administration via > SSH. > Today I encountered some behaviour that, for the moment, has me > baffled. > > I login remotely to the host to my user account on that machine and > download the CUPS 1.2.12 tar file from cups.org. The tar file owner > and group show up in ls -l as my username and group (as expected). > > Then I login to root from my user account, using the full login > command 'su -'. As root, I run tar -xvjf cups...blah blah.tar.bz2 and > extract all the cups files and directories. Running ls -alR lists ALL > the files extracted and directories created as being owned by my > wife's user name and group. (She's the primary user of this machine.) > WHOA, am I surprised!! > > Next, I view the original files in the tar file, 'tar -tvjf > cups...blahblah.tar.bz2' and as expected, the owner and group are > 'msweet' (Michael Sweet who works on the CUPS project). > > Still puzzled, I check the groups that my account, my wife's account, > and 'root' belong to, and find nothing out of the ordinary. > > Next, I check /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the host machine and see nothing > out of the ordinary there. > > As a final test, I try to check the su login mechanism by creating a > new file with 'touch testfile.tar' and then ls -l the directory to > find the new file correctly assigned to root user and root group. > > Any ideas what's misconfigured to cause the permissions to be wrongly > assigned? > > TIA >
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