From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 29 11:45:08 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9F1DF6 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:45:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) Received: from alogt.com (alogt.com [69.36.191.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E0D63E for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:45:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alogt.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=LVEjUCUrMRmDwoVf7acnDev0rVojaktk9iXp1r20OGo=; b=jDYpFMbOhaqhqD2He3naM8UNuZ+D6c0znIiebMeLVDYruJxivDSEBhpLlSpgMFgEOSQhHSvPYMEYuvJ8C+uOVGtyuGPvezVrQskr1bBzHa+1s+lFqxGKx6bMZ9X7z0hw; Received: from [122.129.203.50] (port=14444 helo=X220.ovitrap.com) by sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net with esmtpsa (SSLv3:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1U09cZ-000tz5-75; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:44:59 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:44:55 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky To: Matthias Apitz Subject: Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports? Message-ID: <20130129184455.742b28d8@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20130129090819.GA1372@tiny.Sisis.de> References: <20130129082806.GA2035@holstein.holy.cow> <20130129090819.GA1372@tiny.Sisis.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - alogt.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: authenticated_id: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: Ralf Mardorf , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:45:08 -0000 Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:08:20 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d=C3=ADa Monday, January 28, 2013 a las 10:28:06PM -1000, parv escribi= =C3=B3: >=20 >=20 > In general, I find all this thread (wrong file owner) a bit boring. I find it very interesting. > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new > installation. A lot of files and directories in the systems This is what I am doubting. Shouldn't an installation of the world solve this problem? Or are the current owners of a directory ignored when the world is reinstalled? > filesystem, in / /var /usr, have dedicated owner to allow certain > processes which does not run as 'root' to do their correct work > there, for exmample 'mail'; i.e. you can not do just a complete > "chown -R root .... " and expect that the system still works; It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust FreeBSD is in case of failures. Erich