On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 04:37:25PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2019, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > >Perhaps you succeeded running hp-plugin once as root and it > >created the lock file (/data/home/frenkiel/.hplip/hp-plugin.lock) > >with root permission > > hi Tomas, > thank you for your suggestion, but it's of course the first thing I checked > and found no lock file And the directory (.hplip) above it is readable/writable for you? > Anyway, I dont see how running anything as root, in the root tree, > could create a file in mmy home tree. Why not? Depending on how you "become" root, - the $HOME environment variable could be still point at "your" home - you acquired root's effective, not its real user id -- and the process in question looks for the current real user's home (not the default in sudo, but afaik that's what might happen, e.g. with setuid programs). Something like that. Cheers -- tomás
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