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  • Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242) ? /dev (owned by

    From Greg Wooledge@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, May 16, 2026 20:40:01
    Subject: Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242) ? /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of dev/snd/timer.

    On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 18:30:57 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
    Hi,

    On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 04:09:11PM -0000, CGS wrote:
    On 2026-05-16, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
    On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 15:22:29 -0000, CGS wrote:
    If your / directory was actually owned by someone other than root, then I'd say it's a good thing that it got fixed.


    I'm on a vanilla Trixie and have never touched /, so I'm baffled.

    Do you have a user with uid 4242? Does:

    grep 4242 /etc/passwd

    show any output?

    "id 4242" would be a better choice, just in case there are users
    defined in LDAP, NIS, or whatever else people use these days.

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  • From Andy Smith@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, May 16, 2026 20:40:01
    Subject: Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242) ? /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of dev/snd/timer.

    Hi,

    On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 04:09:11PM -0000, CGS wrote:
    On 2026-05-16, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
    On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 15:22:29 -0000, CGS wrote:
    If your / directory was actually owned by someone other than root, then
    I'd say it's a good thing that it got fixed.


    I'm on a vanilla Trixie and have never touched /, so I'm baffled.

    Do you have a user with uid 4242? Does:

    grep 4242 /etc/passwd

    show any output?

    Thanks,
    Andy

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