-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:54:48AM -0600, Chad Martin wrote: > Robert C Wittig wrote: > > CM> Kind of. In reality, root is just another user. Root just happens to > > CM> have a lot of permissions for things. I'd bet there's some setting > > CM> somewhere that gives root universal read access, but I would have no > > CM> idea where it is. > > > > As long as root has the ability to chmod all files, root can read > > anything at all, by changing the file in question's permissions. > > At least on my Gentoo box, you need write permissions to chmod a file, > even if you're root. I was not able to change the permissions of a file > created by another user with 700 permissions.
Interesting. In FreeBSD, as root, I was able to do a chmod on a file with 400 permissions created by a user. - -- Scott GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Giles: (scoffs) Magic! Magic's all balderdash and chicanery. I'm afraid we don't know a bloody thing. (everyone looking at him) Except I seem to be British, don't I? Uh, and a man. With ... glasses. (removes glasses) Well, that narrows it down considerably. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFDa5Sx+lTVdes0Z9YRAvnRAJYm45WbUPKj8BXOVIMetEa1ufeUAKC8bt28 GPrNrB4CswOoBax2MpzTew== =7Mp3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
