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# 8  
Old 06-29-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
What's the deal with your Selinux?
Some files have it, some directories have it, many files do not.
Code:
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar 25 12:06 console.apps
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1718 Dec  6  2011 pwquality.conf

What's the output of getenforce?
I'm not aware of selinux and i will explore on that.

BTW, gentenforce output is "Disabled"

Thanks
Bala
# 9  
Old 06-29-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
a) You have a read-only filesystem
b) selinux is tut-tutting at you.
c) There are ACLs in place, like there seem to be:
Code:
drwxr-xr-x.  6 root    root       4096 Jun 28 06:14 security

The dot at the end of the filemode display is indicative of ACLs (access control lists) being in place for this file. Please report the output of the aclget [/path/to/]security command.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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# 10  
Old 06-29-2016
Thank you. I was not aware that access control lists could supercede even root, this is quite interesting!
# 11  
Old 06-30-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
c) There are ACLs in place, like there seem to be:
Code:
drwxr-xr-x.  6 root    root       4096 Jun 28 06:14 security

The dot at the end of the filemode display is indicative of ACLs (access control lists) being in place for this file. Please report the output of the aclget [/path/to/]security command.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Thank you very much. I was not aware of the ACL and "dot" stuff before.

However, i could not find the command "aclget" on my linux OS. I did searched on Google and i could see something related to IBM software.

Can you please let me know what Software i need in order to get "aclget" command?

Thanks
Bala
Smilie
# 12  
Old 06-30-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by baluchen
Can you please let me know what Software i need in order to get "aclget" command?
Sorry, my bad. aclget is the command on AIX, use the getfacl instead.

Just for completeness sake, i remembered a fourth (although quite unprobable) possibility of what might have happened:

D) a DCE (distributed computing enviroment, similar to what Windoze calls a "domain")-cell is set up. Local root will not have automatically authority over all files, only dceroot does have this.

I hope this helps.
# 13  
Old 06-30-2016
Yes bakunin. You seems to be correct. Is there a way i can find what is my dceroot account name?

BTW, the result of getfacl command output.

Code:
[root@ip-10-34-70-118 ~]# getfacl /etc/security/
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: etc/security/
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

[root@ip-10-34-70-118 ~]# getfacl /etc/security/access-sshd.conf
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: etc/security/access-sshd.conf
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rw-
group::r--
other::r--

[root@ip-10-34-70-118 ~]#
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