 | | | Linux Login Script | Linux Login Script 2004-02-10 - By Dave Ihnat
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:18:09PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> <frowns > I dunno, Dave... are you saying that the user can delete a
> root-owned file with 555 perms? That doesn 't /sound/ right...
Of course it is--they own the parent directory. They can 't *change* it,
but they can delete it. It 's the old /usr/tmp problem; that 's why they
overloaded the sticky bit ( "t ") to prevent it in temp directories, but
that would be a bad thing to do on a home directory.
Cheers,
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Dave Ihnat
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