[Cialug] Sticky Bit Directory from gnome-control-center

Todd Walton tdwalton at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 19:53:27 UTC 2019


Check this out:

ttwalto $ ls -ld ~/.{cache,config}/gnome-control-center
d-w-rwxr-T. 2 ttwalto ttwalto 6 Jan 29 16:05
/home/ttwalto/.cache/gnome-control-center
d-w-rwxr-T. 2 ttwalto ttwalto 6 Jan 29 16:05
/home/ttwalto/.config/gnome-control-center

Why would those two directories be sticky bit? Neither one has
anything in them, and no other uses can write or execute those
directories. Everytime I run a find on my home directory I get two
"permission denied" errors:

ttwalto $ find /home -iregex '*' -print 1>/dev/null
find: ‘/home/ttwalto/.cache/gnome-control-center’: Permission denied
find: ‘/home/ttwalto/.config/gnome-control-center’: Permission denied

It's weird that they'd just show up like that. I'm running RHEL 7.6.

--
Todd


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