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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Creating a file where the owner and group is not root Post 302653095 by Corona688 on Friday 8th of June 2012 11:46:56 AM
Old 06-08-2012
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Explain exactly what you do word for word, letter for letter, keystroke for keystroke.
You have not explained in enough detail. I was not using hyperbole. I want to see exactly what your shell session looks like when you run that command. Use screenshots if necessary. Something extremely strange and quite possibly dangerous is going on for you to get root without asking when not logged in as root.

I also still want an explanation of where these files are being saved. Is this 'local folder' on a partition on a USB stick some such? That could explain it -- FAT32 filesystems don't have any users at all, and may just show everything as root...
 

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dialups(4)							   File Formats 							dialups(4)

NAME
dialups - list of terminal devices requiring a dial-up password SYNOPSIS
/etc/dialups DESCRIPTION
dialups is an ASCII file which contains a list of terminal devices that require a dial-up password. A dial-up password is an additional password required of users who access the computer through a modem or dial-up port. The correct password must be entered before the user is granted access to the computer. The set of ports that require a dial-up password are listed in the dialups file. Each entry in the dialups file is a single line of the form: terminal-device where terminal-device The full path name of the terminal device that will require a dial-up password for users accessing the computer through a modem or dial-up port. The dialups file should be owned by the root user and the root group. The file should have read and write permissions for the owner (root) only. EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample dialups file. Here is a sample dialups file: /dev/term/a /dev/term/b /dev/term/c FILES
/etc/d_passwd dial-up password file /etc/dialups list of dial-up ports requiring dial-up passwords SEE ALSO
d_passwd(4) SunOS 5.10 4 May 1994 dialups(4)
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