On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 6:32 PM old sixpack13
<sixpack13(a)online.de> wrote:
It sounds like selinux. Under selinux, root is just another account to
be contained.
ls -alZ
will show you the selinux context.
ls -lRZ /root/.cache
/root/.cache:
total 0
dr-x------. 2 root root system_u:object_r:fusefs_t:s0 0 1. Jan 1970 doc
/root/.cache/doc:
total 0
dr-x------. 2 root root system_u:object_r:fusefs_t:s0 0 1. Jan 1970 by-app
/root/.cache/doc/by-app:
total 0
ls -laZ
total 20
dr-xr-x---. 1 root root system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 154 22. Jan 00:17 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 1 root root system_u:object_r:root_t:s0 138 15. Dez 00:48 ..
-rw-------. 1 root root unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 3180 22. Jan 00:00
.bash_history
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 18 23. Jul 2022
.bash_logout
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 141 23. Jul 2022
.bash_profile
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 429 23. Jul 2022 .bashrc
drwx------. 1 root root system_u:object_r:cache_home_t:s0 6 22. Jan 00:08 .cache
drwx------. 1 root root unconfined_u:object_r:config_home_t:s0 30 21. Jan 23:44 .config
drwx------. 1 root root unconfined_u:object_r:dbus_home_t:s0 22 17. Sep 15:40 .dbus
-rw-------. 1 root root unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 20 22. Jan 00:17
.lesshst
drwx------. 1 root root unconfined_u:object_r:gconf_home_t:s0 10 10. Sep 20:15 .local
I'm completely unexperienced with selinux, but shouldn't I be able to delete
.cache cause I own the dir and have write permission ?