[PLUG] What could have caused my flash drive to be owned by root?
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Sep 2 12:42:46 UTC 2019
On Sun, 1 Sep 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Sep 1 17:11 256GB-2
John,
Why ownership changed to root I can't explain, but you could access it when
owned by root.root if the 'other' execute permssion was set; e.g., 744.
Access to directories by non-oweners or group members is controlled by the execute
bit.
Regards,
Rich
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