on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:54:42PM -0700, Erik Steffl (steffl@bigfoot.com) wrote:
> I have just found out that ~erik/.Xauthority is owned by root and I
> cannot access my X server (I couldn't run any X applications).
You every symlink or hardlink this to your root .Xauthority file, by any
chance?
> I have no idea how that happened, I have started additional X server
> as root (startx -- :1), just like many times before, doing some testing
> of mouse settings.
>
> and now I checked more and I see that huge number of files in my home
> directory (10813out of 122342 (that includes ., .. and directories) have
> group set to root. Some files have group set to users. Most of them have
> group set to erik.
How'd you start as root? Did you 'su' or 'su -'?
> jojda:~>groups
> erik disk audio dip www-data video
> jojda:~>grep erik /etc/passwd
> erik:x:1000:1000:Erik Steffl,,,:/home/erik:/usr/bin/tcsh
>
> examples of files:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 erik users 1910784 May 1 23:08
> Chaos_Uk_-_Skate_Song.3.
> mp3
>
> ...
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 erik root 143 Nov 3 2000 Miro Zbirka -
> Dr.Jackyl&
> Mr.Hyde.mp3
> ...
> -rw-r--r-- 1 erik users 4390912 Nov 3 2000
> Miro_Zbirka_-_C'est_La_V
> ie.mp3
>
> note the same date on the last two of them - it was probably same
> gnapster session...
Running gnapster as root? You play Russian roulette when you're bored
as well?
> most (all?) of the fiels with groups = users was downloaded by
> napster, but I don't see any pattern to the files where group is set to
> root.
$ find ~ -user root -print0 | xargs -0 ls -ld
...and explore for patterns.
> and the most puzzling is the .Xauthority - how could the permission be
> changed?
I have my suspicions.
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