"Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:25:35PM -0400,
> Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > >
> > > I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir,
> > > which, instead of "ed" as group owner, are given the group of "adm".
> > > These files are all types, a file created by Netscape while
> > > downloading, a sub-dir I created, and a config file (.xscreensaver)
> > > created by another process, as examples. The user "ed", isn't allowed
> > > to change this, I have to use chown as root to fix things. Is this
> > > normal? Why do they get the group of "adm"?
> > >
>
> This is just a guess, and I don't know how it could have happened, but
> your home directory might belong to group adm. My homedir is SGID, so that
> all files are owned by the same group as it. If yours is set up the same
> way, and I imagine it is, this might be it.
Thanks for the reply.
/home:
drwxrwsr-x 3 ed ed 1024 Aug 11 1998 home
I don't know how the above happened for /home. What should the
owner/permissions of /home be?
/home/ed:
drwxrwxr-x 30 ed ed 3072 Oct 15 05:41 ed
Its not SGID. Should it be?
P.S. The group 'ed' does exist, and it doesn't matter whether user
'ed' is a member of 'adm' or not. 'mkdir temp' in /home/ed (executed by
the user 'ed') always results in the group owner of the temp subdir
being 'adm'.
--
Ed C.
