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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!stdio!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!uninett.no!sn.no!vibes From: vibes@hipdrome.org (Jørn-Morten Innselset) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Weird change of ownership Date: 4 Jun 1997 19:58:29 GMT Organization: SN Internett Lines: 24 Message-ID: <slrn5pbiae.l0.vibes@pc193.janco.sn.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc193.janco.sn.no X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42374 Today something happened on my 2.2.2 system that had me completely baffled. All of a sudden my SO complained about getting "Access denied" messages when trying to connect to my FreeBSD computer (she's running a Win95 based Xserver on her own computer). I investigated the matter, and found that all the files in her ~ directory (including the .rhosts file) mysteriously had *me* as the owner (the owner group was still her own, though). Oh well - I figured that I had been messing around to much with my root access, and chowned the files back. Then I fired up slrn on my own account - and got complaints about not finding the .newsrc file. What had happened? You guessed it - all *my* files had *her* as the owner. Now this made a bit less sense, but I chowned again - not prepared to dwell on it more. Half an hour later the same thing happened again, though. All ownerships were switched again. Now I chowned the directories itself with the -R option, and it has been OK for the last two hours. What am I missing here? Will the ownership of the files default back to the owner of the directory after a while? Sounds pretty unlikely to me - not being a UNIX expert at all. Could anyone offer a reasonable explanation as to why this happened in the first place - or would I be better off forgetting all about it? ;) -- http://www.bs.bi.no/people/jinnsels/ vibes@hipdrome.org