Ok...another experiment proved me wrong, again. Geez...I really ought to learn to test my theories before I spout off.
Sorry. On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Thornton Prime wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
