Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:55:34 +0200
From: Andreas =?utf-8?B?S8OkaMOkcmk=?= <andreas.kahari@abc.se>
To: Wolfgang Klein <klein.wolfg@web.de>
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Subject: Re: ddclient: file ownership error
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On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 07:56:14AM +0200, Wolfgang Klein wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> this is the contents of /etc/ddclient:
> 
> 
> /etc/ddclient# ls -alF
> total 24
> drwxr-----  2 ddclient ddclient  4096 Oct 11 20:54 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 46 root     root      4096 Oct 11 20:47 ../
> -rw-------  1 ddclient ddclient   181 Oct 12 07:35 ddclient.conf
> -rw-------  1 ddclient ddclient 12031 Mar 10  2025 ddclient.conf.orig
> 
> 
> And this is what ddclient tells me:
> 
> 
> ddclient -daemon=0 -debug -verbose -noquiet
> WARNING: [file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf]> file should be owned only by
> ddclient or not be
> writable.
> 
> 
> This answer does not make any sense to me, because ownership and permissions
> are exactly set as the error message says they should be and they are
> identical to the vanilla file that was created during installation.
> 
> What is wrong there? Am I completely misinterpreting something?

I don't use ddclient, and know nothing about it, but if you started the
tool as a user different from the ddclient user, it might be complaining
about the fact that the file is not owned by the user you started it as
(not actually the ddclient user).  Try starting it as the ddclient user
instead.

	sudo -u ddclient ddclient -daemon=0 -debug -verbose -noquiet

... or something like that.

If I'm barking up the wrong tree, please ignore me. :)


-- 
Matti Andreas Kähäri
Uppsala, Sweden

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