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Hello, I've upgraded filesystem during today's system update, and have noticed that this warning occurs consistently:
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling filesystem [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /root/
filesystem: 700 package: 750
I'm unsure of why this would be the case, the commits page for the filesystem package doesn't seem to show any obvious indication of a permissions change from 700 to 750, nor did the permissions seem to be overwritten upon upgrade (and reinstalling after rebooting).
I'm not going to alter the permissions for now, but I'm wondering if this change this is intended or not.
Last edited by Iron Squid (2024-01-23 17:19:18)
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Recently when I was updating system I saw a few more like this:
upgraded aom (3.8.0-2 -> 3.8.1-1)
warning: directory permissions differ on /var/log/audit/
filesystem: 700 package: 755
upgraded shadow (4.14.2-1 -> 4.14.3-1)
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
upgraded geeqie (2.1-3 -> 2.1-5)
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
upgraded gthumb (3.12.4-1 -> 3.12.4-2)
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
upgraded polkit (123-1 -> 124-1)
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
For now I ignored it, will see in future what will happen.
I think that for /root/ you can simply ignore it; it's not anyone business what you will do with permissions to that directory.
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Recently when I was updating system I saw a few more like this:
upgraded aom (3.8.0-2 -> 3.8.1-1) warning: directory permissions differ on /var/log/audit/ filesystem: 700 package: 755 upgraded shadow (4.14.2-1 -> 4.14.3-1) warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/ filesystem: 750 package: 755 upgraded geeqie (2.1-3 -> 2.1-5) warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/ filesystem: 750 package: 755 upgraded gthumb (3.12.4-1 -> 3.12.4-2) warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/ filesystem: 750 package: 755 upgraded polkit (123-1 -> 124-1) warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/ filesystem: 750 package: 755
For now I ignored it, will see in future what will happen.
I think that for /root/ you can simply ignore it; it's not anyone business what you will do with permissions to that directory.
Last edited by Iron Squid (2024-01-23 02:59:48)
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It was 0750 since the very beginning (2008):
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … GBUILD#L67
The permissions on your /root had to have been changed manually at some point to 0700.
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It was 0750 since the very beginning (2008):
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … GBUILD#L67The permissions on your /root had to have been changed manually at some point to 0700.
I see. Something I'd installed must've altered them for whatever reason. I'll chmod it back to 750 to be safe.
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