Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing
Date	2022-01-25 11:50 +0100
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On Ma, 25 ian 22, 04:03:17, Gareth Evans wrote:
> 
> Googling "Detected unsafe path transition during canonicalization" led me to 
> 
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=260924
> 
> where a user sees this error because / is owned by the user rather than root.
> 
> Lo and behold
> 
> $ stat /
> 
> shows this is what has somehow happened.
> 
> $ sudo chown root:root /
> 
> solves the disappearing /var/run/utmp problem (and fixes who/users) 
> 
> There is nothing in bash history to suggest I did this - can/should it happen any other way?

Occam's Razor would suggest this was done when setting up your / on ZFS.


Kind regards,
Andrei
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Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-24 11:00 +0100
  Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-24 13:50 +0100
    Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-25 02:40 +0100
    Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-25 02:40 +0100
      Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-25 04:00 +0100
        Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-25 04:10 +0100
          Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-25 04:10 +0100
            Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-25 04:30 +0100
              Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-25 05:10 +0100
                Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2022-01-25 05:20 +0100
                Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-25 05:30 +0100
                Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-25 06:00 +0100
                Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-25 06:40 +0100
                Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-25 11:50 +0100
                Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-25 13:20 +0100
      Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-25 14:10 +0100
        Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-25 14:20 +0100
        Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-25 14:20 +0100
          Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-25 16:00 +0100

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