root file system ownership

[JOE HEPWORTH_4]

My root file system seems to be owned by daemon:daemon. Is it safe to simply change this back to root:root using a chown root:root / command ? See the attachment

Thanks

[Dennis Handly]

I don't see why not.

[avizen9]

how it happen?
i believe there should be no problem to change it
it should be root:sys thanks,

[Mark S Meadows]

Hi Joe,

Yes - It is safe to amend "/" back to root:root as suggested, i.e. :

chown root:root /

/# ls -ld /
drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 8192 Aug 7 09:22 /

total 5184
2 drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 8192 Aug 7 09:22 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 8192 Aug 7 09:22 ..
19782 -rw------- 1 root sys 300 Feb 13 2008 .Xauthority
19794 drwx------ 2 root sys 96 Sep 26 2007 .elm
19798 drwx------ 2 root sys 96 Nov 12 2008 .emcli
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Regards,

Mark

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Joe:

Change ('chown') the root directory back to 'root:sys' as noted.

You might want to dispose of the /core file from December 2008 too :-)

Regards!

...JRF...