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

Scott Yates Scott at yatesframe.com
Mon Feb 11 20:12:34 UTC 2019


That IS strange!  If i am reading those flags correctly, it looks like they
are denying listing permissions to the owner?  Maybe i am just reading it
wrong.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 1:54 PM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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