Re: is root realy root ?

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> On Jan 22, 2023, at 15:47, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I agree that SELinux does often cause confusing error messages, but this flatpak XDG portal is returning exactly the correct error code you would get any time you tried to delete a mountpoint of any kind.

-- 
Jonathan Billings
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