Mike McCarty wrote:
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Fr, den 08.07.2005 schrieb Shawn um 8:13:
quite recently I mistakenly did something like chown -R jr /
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I wonder if etc and boot shouldn't properly be owned by root?
Sure, they have to be root owned.
They *have* to be root ownership? What is there which will not function
if they are not root ownership?
Anything that was originally owned by root will "work" as before, but
represents a potential security issue as user "jr" will now have access
to them and that user should not have that access.
Anything that was originally owned by a different user than root is
likely not to work, because the process that needs to access that data
will be running as the correct userid, not "jr".
Paul.
