Hi guys! Something is very weird or I didn't sleep enough last night. I am puzzled. How can an ordinary user delete a file he has no write access?
See this example: p...@montblanc:~$ cd /tmp/ p...@montblanc:/tmp$ mkdir test; cd test p...@montblanc:/tmp/test$ sudo touch file_owned_by_root p...@montblanc:/tmp/test$ ls -l file_owned_by_root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-03-31 16:17 file_owned_by_root p...@montblanc:/tmp/test$ id uid=1000(pep) gid=1000(pep) p...@montblanc:/tmp/test$ rm file_owned_by_root rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `file_owned_by_root'? yes p...@montblanc:/tmp/test$ ls -l file_owned_by_root ls: cannot access file_owned_by_root: No such file or directory I replicate consistently the same operations in several PCs. Doesn't matter if the file is empty or has any data. So, I am wrong to expect that rm returns an error when the user doesn't have write rights over that file? josep. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
