--On Saturday, October 26, 2019 1:07 AM +0200 Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote: > Not sure what you were doing. An example: [root at rocinante ~]# ls -al total 76 dr-xr-x---. 8 root root 4096 Oct 25 14:37 . dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 4096 Oct 21 09:36 .. -rw-. 1 root root 1481 Oct 24 10:35 .bash_history -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18 May 11 08:33 .bash_logout -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 176 May 11 08:33 .bash_profile -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 176 May 11 08:33 .bashrc [more output follow] Note the permissions on .bash_history. It seems to be system-wide as it also happens when I use a mortal (non-root) account.