On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:45, Mike Burger wrote:
> That hasn't been my experience.  If root creates a file in my home 
> directory, I can't delete it unless I'm root, or I'm part of the group 
> that owns it and the file is set for group write permissions.
> 

always been that way for me. I never really liked it but hey I have only
been doing this for a few years.

test on rhl 7.3 box


[exhibitor@compaq3 exhibitor]$ ll
total 20
-rw-rw-r--    1 exhibito exhibito      612 Nov 19 23:02 authorized_keys
drwxr-xr-x    5 exhibito exhibito     4096 Dec  4 14:08 bin
-rwxrwxr-x    1 exhibito exhibito     1977 Nov 19 22:47 script.exp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Dec  5 15:10 testfile
-rw-rw-r--    1 exhibito exhibito     7839 Dec  4 12:12 uptime.out
[exhibitor@compaq3 exhibitor]$ rm testfile 
rm: remove write-protected file `testfile'? y
[exhibitor@compaq3 exhibitor]$ ll
total 20
-rw-rw-r--    1 exhibito exhibito      612 Nov 19 23:02 authorized_keys
drwxr-xr-x    5 exhibito exhibito     4096 Dec  4 14:08 bin
-rwxrwxr-x    1 exhibito exhibito     1977 Nov 19 22:47 script.exp
-rw-rw-r--    1 exhibito exhibito     7839 Dec  4 12:12 uptime.out
[exhibitor@compaq3 exhibitor]$ 





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