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Re: what's this supposed to be???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas Buday)
Wed Nov 18 07:23:42 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:23:27 +0100 (CET)
From: Tomas Buday <tomas@snt.sk>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <3652B931.82A6F9BE@nook.net>
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no, one does _NOT_ need to be in group 'root'.
> To avoid quoting, you logged in as "tomas". Then you su'd
> to root, and created a file in the /home/tomas directory.
> You exited, and went back to being tomas. You then rm'd the
> file, and it removed it, even though the permissions and
> ownerships owuld indicate that tomas could not do it.
>
> I tried it here on my 5.1 box. Got the same results.
>
> However, when I looked in my /etc/group file, I see that
> I -myself- is listed as being in the root group. Thus as
> for myself, I would have write/erase permission to files with
> root root ownership.
>
> Check your /etc/group file and report back on what is there
> on the root group line. If you are NOT listed there, then
> this needs an explanation PRONTO!
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