Mike McCarty wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Having root access only gives one effective ownership, not effective permission. Being root gives one the same privileges the owner would have.
It gets more interesting when you have fuse mounted file systems. I have an encrypted file system as user mikkel, and root can not access it, unless I change to user mikkel, even if it is "unlocked".
That makes perfect sense. Ownership and access are not the same thing.
Mike
A agree. But in the past, root would have access no matter who owned the files/directories. I like it much better this way - one more step someone with root access has to go through. And if it isn't mounted, then nobody without the pass-phrase can access it anyway.
It is kind of funny when installing RPMs to get a message about not being able to stat the file system...
Mikkel