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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Weird change of ownership
Date: 6 Jun 1997 13:58:37 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <slrn5pbiae.l0.vibes@pc193.janco.sn.no>,
vibes@hipdrome.org (Jørn-Morten Innselset) writes:
> 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? ;)
Sounds like your partition table is about to migrate !
I suspect someone's playing games with you.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !