Brad Oaks writes: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > demerphq writes: > > > > > It turned out the problem is that when the tests are root it seems to > > > be not possible to create a directory that is not writeable by root. > > > > I think that can be reduced to: It isn't possible to create a directory > > that is not writeable by root. The whole point of root is that as the > > super-user it can do anything! > > (I know this is not the point of the conversation, but file this away > as it might be useful to you some day.) > As part of being able to do anything, root *can* make a directory that > it cannot write to. > > Enter the immutable flag: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# chattr +i unwritable/
$ chattr -bash: chattr: command not found > for more info: > man chattr > man lsattr $ man chattr No manual entry for chattr $ man lsattr No manual entry for lsattr That's on a FreeBSD server. Let's try Linux. Ah, yes: $ whatis chattr chattr (1) - change file attributes on a Linux second extended file system So you can make this test work even when running as root, so long as you don't mind it now failing on Unix-like OSes that aren't Linux. I'm not sure that's a nett win! Smylers
