> I am new to RED-HAT Linux but I was amazed at this behavior and can't > find anything on it. > > I created some dummy files as/owned by root on my WS with only "r" > permission bit set for group and world. Then I logged into the same box > as a dumb test user with no privileges and used "rm" to remove the file > and god damn it I was given the option to remove the "write protected > file"
This is not a Linux thing, nor a RedHat thing, but a Unix/POSIX thing. If you have write permissions on the directory, you have the ability to add and remove entries from that directory, so a user can delete a file from a directory they have write permissions on, even if they don't have read or write permissions on the file itself. thornton -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
