Yes, that's it! Thank you.
On Jan 12, 6:31 pm, [email protected] wrote: > 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 > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > >
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