You could always try 'chattr +i /home/joe' to make it immutable. Check out the man page for details... On Jan 31, 2013 11:44 PM, "Boris Epstein" <borepstein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello listmates, > > If I have a regular, ACL-capable filesystem on Linux (say, ext4 or xfs) is > there a way for me to establish the following: > > 1) There is a directory, say, /home/joe . It is owned by user joe . No one > but joe (and root, of course) can read or write anything in this directory. > > 2) No one can change permissions on that directory, not even joe. In other > words, in joe all of a sudden joe decided to open his directory up to the > world (or the group he is a member of) by doing something akin to: > > chmod 777 /home/joe > > he would not succeed. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Boris. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos