On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:54 pm, cervixcouch wrote: > 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... I don't think so, if it was to run on all computers, you sure would not place it un "user space" the only reason I cna think of is to prevent a user for deleteing a folder that "needs" to be in the users folders for some "custom" application
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