 | | | why can I write to a file I don 't have permission to?? | why can I write to a file I don 't have permission to?? 2005-04-15 - By Bill Medland
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On April 14, 2005 07:55 pm, David.Knight@(protected) wrote:
> On April 14, 2005 02:56 pm, David.Knight@(protected) wrote:
> > RedHat List,
> > I was working on a script the other day and ran into
> > an anomaly with the file permission's on files. I have
> > checked this on several ES servers and all produce the same
> > results.
As Tobias pointed out, you can get the behaviour you want
(almost) by setting the sticky bit on the directory; man chmod.
Note that the man page is slightly wrong unclear. With the
sticky bit on the directory the file may be deleted by either
the file's owner or the directory's owner. In your case it
won't help because the user is the directory owner and so can
remove the file. Compare that to /tmp where root is the
directory owner and the directory has the sticky bit set, so the
non-root user won't be able to delete root's files (or anyone
else's)
References:
- W. Richard Stevens' "Advanced Programming in the Unix
Environment" (generally accepted as quite authoritative),
sections 4.5 and 4.10
- Single Unix Specification V3 - General Concepts - Directory
Protection
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