Re: is root realy root ?

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On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 3:23 PM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2023-01-21 15:37, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >> chown: changing ownership of '/root/.cache/doc': Operation not permitted
> >>
> > It sounds like selinux.
>
> If the problem were SELinux, the system would report "permission denied"
> and not "operation not permitted".  You can verify this with a little
> bit of roundabout testing.  Open two terminals and start "root" sessions
> in both.

I think you are correct. When I first experienced it, I think it was
EACCES, and not EPERM.

Unfortunately for users, when selinux hijacked Posix return codes,
selinux did not document them. It looks like the same is playing out
with flatpack.

Jeff
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