On 4-9-2012 11:31, Bernd wrote: > The owner of the file or the folder does not affect under which UID it > will run. Agreed. > They will always run with the UID of the > user who started them (unless you set the suid bit which is considered > evil and should not be neccessary in most normal situations). Agreed.
I don't know if SELinux, AppArmor etc take file ownership into account - perhaps they don't (did throw in a disclaimer in my email :) ) Also, it isn't clear to me whether the OP runs his application as root or as his user before and after his chown -R operation... _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
