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Okay, I was trying to set up a “networktools” group so that I could use things like "tcpdump" without giving it root privileges. (cf Wireshark,) and managed to seriously muck up the file permissions in "/usr/bin". I recovered from this near fatal screw up; but now, every time I update, I am getting a warning from pacman similar to:
[2017-08-10 14:19] [ALPM] reinstalled xfdesktop (4.12.4-1)
[2017-08-10 14:19] [ALPM] warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/bin/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
After considerable research, I am fairly sure it is a common problem that is more annoying than serious. Would anyone care to confirm this, or am I in big trouble?
Secondly, I have suspicion that the problem is somehow related to “/usr/bin” being in group “stupidme” as oppose to “root”, who owns both the folder and packages.
[stupidme@mine usr]$ ls -Cgl
total 404
drwxr-x--- 5 stupidme 102400 Aug 10 14:24 bin
drwxr-xr-x 464 root 61440 Aug 10 14:19 include
drwxr-xr-x 229 root 192512 Aug 10 14:19 lib
drwxr-xr-x 11 root 20480 Aug 10 14:19 lib32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 3 Mar 26 22:57 lib64 -> lib
drwxr-xr-x 11 root 4096 Jul 19 15:40 local
drwxr-xr-x 4 root 4096 Apr 8 2016 python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 3 Mar 26 22:57 sbin -> bin
drwxr-xr-x 257 root 12288 Aug 10 07:24 share
drwxr-xr-x 4 root 4096 Jul 29 06:53 src
[stupidme@mine usr]$
Could anyone confirm this or otherwise care to comment.
Thanks in advance,
Irvine
Edited to change "owner" to "group"
Last edited by IrvineHimself (2017-08-10 15:31:15)
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Change the permissions for /usr/bin from 0x750 (owner rwx, group r-x, other No permissions) to 0x755 ( (owner rwx, group r-x, other r-x) using chmod
Also, change the owner back to root from stupidme using chown
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After a quick test, that seems to have solved the problem:)
Thanks for your prompt reply
Irvine
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