On Friday 07 March 2003 09:38 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 2:26 am, cervixcouch wrote:
> > On Friday 07 March 2003 09:09 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> > > You are right, from directories other than the /home/belardi it cannot
> > > be deleted (I tried '/' '/etc' '/home'). But still, I think that some
> > > time ago I tried to delete a root file from my home, and had to su to
> > > manage.
> > >
> > > On everybody else's system its' the same?
> >
> > i just tried it on my system and the same thing happens.  Hadn't noticed
> > before that I could delete a root-owned file if it was in my home
> > directory.
> >
> > very curious...
>
> Why would you want something in your home directory that you couldn't
> delete? I'm not being obtuse - is there any reason you can think of that
> would make root place a file in your home directory but not want you to be
> able to delete it?
>
> Anne

Maybe if a sys/net admin wanted to push out a screen saver or have a 
systems-related feature run on all computers and not allow the end-users to 
tamper with it.?  Just a guessling...


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