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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:29:29 +0100
From: David Restall <dave@restall.net>
To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: ddclient: file ownership error
Message-ID: <20251012132929.Q9hJpRN8t%dave@restall.net>
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Hi Wolfgang,

> Hello,
> 
> this is the contents of /etc/ddclient:
> 
> 
> /etc/ddclient# ls -alF
> total 24
> drwxr-----=C2=A0 2 ddclient ddclient=C2=A0 4096 Oct 11 20:54 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 46 root=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0root=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 4096 Oct 11=
>  20:47 ../
> -rw-------=C2=A0 1 ddclient ddclient=C2=A0 =C2=A0181 Oct 12 07:35 ddclient=
> .conf
> -rw-------=C2=A0 1 ddclient ddclient 12031 Mar 10=C2=A0 2025 ddclient.conf=
> .orig
> 
> 
> And this is what ddclient tells me:
> 
> 
> ddclient -daemon=3D0 -debug -verbose -noquiet
> WARNING: [file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf]> file should be owned only=20
> by ddclient or not be
> writable.
> 
> 
> This answer does not make any sense to me, because ownership and=20
> permissions are exactly set as the error message says they should be and=
> =20
> they are identical to the vanilla file that was created during=20
> installation.
> 
> What is wrong there? Am I completely misinterpreting something?
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Wolfgang

Have you tried changing the permissions on ddclient.conf :-

chmod 400 /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf

so that it honours both the conditions i.e. owned by ddclient user AND
is not writeable to see if it makes a difference.

73



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