"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:54:42PM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I have just found out that ~erik/.Xauthority is owned by root and I > > cannot access my X server (I couldn't run any X applications). > > You every symlink or hardlink this to your root .Xauthority file, by any > chance?
no, but I used (as root) xauth -merge ~erik/.Xauthority (I just read it recently on the list, IIRC it was your advice, I wasn't using it before so I'm wondering if that could be responsible in some strange way). > > I have no idea how that happened, I have started additional X server > > as root (startx -- :1), just like many times before, doing some testing > > of mouse settings. > > > > and now I checked more and I see that huge number of files in my home > > directory (10813out of 122342 (that includes ., .. and directories) have > > group set to root. Some files have group set to users. Most of them have > > group set to erik. > > How'd you start as root? Did you 'su' or 'su -'? su, so it's usually somewhere in ~erik tree but I only su when I really need it - editing some system wide config files, running apt-get etc... I never do any regular work as root. note that only group is set to root, the owner is still erik, when I create file as erik or as root (us-ed) they have expected owner/group: jojda:~>cat >rrr test jojda:~>ls -l rrr -rw-r--r-- 1 erik erik 5 May 23 10:12 rrr jojda:~>su Password: jojda:/home/erik# cat >rrr_root test jojda:/home/erik# ls -l rrr_root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 May 23 10:12 rrr_root none of them is erik/root or erik/users. > > jojda:~>groups > > erik disk audio dip www-data video > > jojda:~>grep erik /etc/passwd > > erik:x:1000:1000:Erik Steffl,,,:/home/erik:/usr/bin/tcsh > > > > examples of files: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 erik users 1910784 May 1 23:08 > > Chaos_Uk_-_Skate_Song.3. > > mp3 > > > > ... > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 erik root 143 Nov 3 2000 Miro Zbirka - > > Dr.Jackyl& > > Mr.Hyde.mp3 > > ... > > -rw-r--r-- 1 erik users 4390912 Nov 3 2000 > > Miro_Zbirka_-_C'est_La_V > > ie.mp3 > > > > note the same date on the last two of them - it was probably same > > gnapster session... > > Running gnapster as root? You play Russian roulette when you're bored > as well? I have been know to pull tiger's tail on occasion (see http://mtm.host.sk/images/page_01.htm) but I'd never run gnapster (and most other apps) as root. also note that the other file has group set to users while user erik is not even member of users: jojda:~>groups erik disk audio dip www-data video that's what's puzzling me. I copied lot of files from old disk (back from when I was using slackware) so at first I though I screwed it during moving of the files but these files were created long after move (they were created on the same day) > > most (all?) of the fiels with groups = users was downloaded by > > napster, but I don't see any pattern to the files where group is set to > > root. > > $ find ~ -user root -print0 | xargs -0 ls -ld > > ...and explore for patterns. I already did, I see no patterns. as I said, I thouhgt it might have something to do with my moving partitions and directories around, but that was long time before some of these files were created (with groups root and users) btw there are no suspicious files owned by root (there are some, mutt source package etc. I don't use fakeroot), only the groups (root&users) are suspicious/mysterious. take a look at following sample, the date doesn't seem to matter, so it wasn't some particular event that changed them, it seems like it is something that's happening all the time. I have no idea what it could be, though. I su to root ONLY when it's needed (in some cases I could do without it, setting fakeroot or sudo for particular tasks): drwx------ 106 erik root 4096 May 23 10:55 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 12 19:32 .. drwx--S--- 2 erik root 4096 Sep 16 2000 .AbiSuite drwxr-sr-x 3 erik root 4096 Apr 28 21:56 .August drwx--S--- 2 erik root 4096 Oct 20 2000 .BWap drwx--S--- 3 erik root 4096 Mar 31 13:28 .BitchX lrwxrwxrwx 1 erik root 31 Jan 19 00:06 .DCOPserver_jojda -> /home/erik/.DCOPserver_jojda_:0 -rw------- 1 erik root 104 Apr 14 23:59 .FvConHist srwxr-xr-x 1 erik root 0 Apr 14 23:59 .FvConSocket prw------- 1 erik erik 0 May 22 21:49 .FvwmCommandC prw------- 1 erik erik 0 May 22 21:49 .FvwmCommandM drwxr-sr-x 3 erik root 4096 Nov 18 2000 .Latte drwxr-sr-x 2 erik erik 4096 Aug 4 2000 .Lin-city -rw------- 1 erik root 32 Apr 21 00:53 .MCOP-random-seed -rw-rw-r-- 1 erik root 23249 May 20 11:54 .RealNetworks_RealMediaSDK_60 -rw-rw-r-- 1 erik root 2276 May 20 11:54 .RealNetworks_RealPlayer_60 -rw-rw-r-- 1 erik root 106 May 4 00:34 .RealNetworks_RealShared_00 -rw-r--r-- 1 erik root 126 Mar 31 2000 .Tipptrainer drwxr-xr-x 2 erik erik 4096 May 19 14:59 .Trash -rw------- 1 erik root 398 May 22 22:27 .Xauthority -rw-r--r-- 1 erik root 33047 May 22 14:34 .Xdefaults lrwxrwxrwx 1 erik root 10 Apr 16 2000 .Xresources -> .Xdefaults -rw-rw-r-- 1 erik root 1954 May 19 13:02 .acrorc the files that have group set to users are more 'grouped' together, e.g. almost everything in directory where I untar downloaded stuff is set to users except of files created by build process (Makefile, *.o etc) - that makes some sense. But why would gnapster create files with groups set to users? or why would ~/mail and all the folders have group users? I created mail using mkdir and the folders were created using netscape new folder (IIRC) and/or procmail (I use IMAP server to access these) > > and the most puzzling is the .Xauthority - how could the permission be > > changed? > > I have my suspicions. what is it? erik
