Why is id command showing euid and egid in output?
Issue
- Commands like touch/mkdir are creating files with root ownership for non-root users.
- Why is id command showing euid and egid in output?
[test@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/test
[test@localhost ~]$ whoami
test
[test@localhost ~]$ id
uid=1072(test) gid=1072(test) euid=0(root) egid=0(root) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
[test@localhost ~]$ mkdir testing
[test@localhost ~]$ ll
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root 6 Sep 30 09:20 testing
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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