[gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

2022-03-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/03/2022 20:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: until recently my system behaves sort of strangely: $ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file Password: tee: /tmp/file: Permission denied [...] Since when can't root write to files it doesn't own? And not even, if the file has write

Re: [gentoo-user] Root can't write to files owned by others?

2022-03-09 Thread Peter Böhm
Rainer, using sudo does not makes you a root user. To become a root user you have to switch with "su -" (and login with root password). Sudo has its own configuration file. If you can do something with sudo on other systems means there is a different configuration for sudo. Check "man sudo"

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - ERROR: setup

2022-03-09 Thread thelma
On 3/8/22 20:48, Matt Connell wrote: On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 16:12 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: In /usr/src/linux is pointing correctly:    linux -> linux-5.10.61-gentoo 5.10.61 isn't offered by gentoo-sources anymore. I think you probably depcleaned it at some point since then, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Root can't write to files owned by others?

2022-03-09 Thread Jack
On 2022.03.09 13:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, until recently my system behaves sort of strangely: $ touch /tmp/file $ ls -l /tmp/file -rw--- 1 rainer rainer 0 2022-03-09 19:06 /tmp/file $ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file Password: tee: /tmp/file: Permission denied

[gentoo-user] Root can't write to files owned by others?

2022-03-09 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, until recently my system behaves sort of strangely: $ touch /tmp/file $ ls -l /tmp/file -rw--- 1 rainer rainer 0 2022-03-09 19:06 /tmp/file $ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file Password: tee: /tmp/file: Permission denied x $ chmod a+w /tmp/file $ ls -l