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
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