Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
On Fri 2003-03-07 at 17:03:31 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its all to do with the x. for a file it means the owner/group can execute
that file. But for a directory, anybody in the group for that directory can
delete any file in the root of that directory, even if the
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 22:47, robin wrote:
man ls and man rm a pretty good, too ;-)
Sir Robin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# man woman
No manual entry for woman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# man sense
No manual entry for sense
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# man brains
No manual entry for brains
--
Sun,
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 04:15, Todd Slater wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:38:20PM +, 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
On Friday 07 March 2003 08:28 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
nope, the same happens with non empty files!
It has to be because it is in your home directory then. Even though the file
is owned by root, it is fully manipulateable (is that a word) by the user
that owns the specific ~/. Does that
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?
raffaele
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, it is the same on my system as I could not open Kmail after moving some
things around yesterday. The cause was ownership had changed to root and
user did not have permissions in this case. It was in user's home directory
as well.
Brian
On Friday 07 March 2003 09:09 am, Raffaele Belardi
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
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
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:38, Anne Wilson wrote:
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?
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
On Friday 07 March 2003 04:03 am, you wrote:
I am running MDK9.0 with msec 3, vanilla kernel. I just noticed that, as
a normal user, I am able to delete root-owned files (with -rw-r--r--
rights). I don't know when it started, I am almost sure it was not this
way last time I tried.
Does
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:38:20PM +, 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
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
This is a good explanation, thanks! After your comment I checked man
chmod, I guess the explanation below is what you are referring to:
STICKY DIRECTORIES
When the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that directory may
be unlinked or renamed only by root or their owner. Without the
On Friday 07 March 2003 08:27 am, you wrote:
This is a good explanation, thanks! After your comment I checked man
chmod, I guess the explanation below is what you are referring to:
STICKY DIRECTORIES
When the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that directory may
be unlinked or
to their folder and the copied file will have their
permissions.
ken
-Original Message-
From: Raffaele Belardi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 07 March 2003 3:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!
This is a good explanation, thanks! After your
On Friday 07 March 2003 04:04 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Friday 07 March 2003 06:03 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
I am running MDK9.0 with msec 3, vanilla kernel. I just noticed that, as
a normal user, I am able to delete root-owned files (with -rw-r--r--
rights). I don't know when it started,
On Fri 2003-03-07 at 17:03:31 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its all to do with the x. for a file it means the owner/group can execute
that file. But for a directory, anybody in the group for that directory can
delete any file in the root of that directory, even if the group permissions
for
18 matches
Mail list logo
