This is almost certainly the result of accidentally letting the passwords get into the logging infrastructure.

Syncthing may fit the bill.

Yeah it is but it’s a pretty capable laptop. I’ve replaced mine with a Framework 11th gen for my daily use but my T480 is currently hosting 10 VMs for my homelab. It’s got the base CPU, i5-8250U, 64GB of RAM and a 4TB SSD and is plenty of horsepower. I really only got the Framework because I was excited about the product and company, not because I was unsatisfied with the T480. I highly recommend it.

Can you paste the line from ls -l? Sanitize the username/date/time if you need to. Example:

-rw-r–r-- 1 bolapara users 0 Nov 21 17:19 asdf

OK I see. Can you create a new file with nano and then do an “ls -l” so we can see the permissions it’s given? Also provide the output of the command “umask” as the user you’re working with.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by this: “gives (the file) elevated privileges”?