On Wednesday 21 January 2009 05:19:39 pm nodata wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 20.01.2009, 06:44 -0500 schrieb Steve Grubb: > > On Monday 19 January 2009 04:13:09 pm Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > > > actually after chattr +i not even root can modify / delete the file: > > > > True. But you can chattr -i ./foo and then edit the file remembering to > > make it immutable again when you are done editing it. Not as automatic as > > one might like, but that's how to do it. > > That would mean a race though. Better to fix directory permissions :) The original question was about a file owned by root but readable by others. I assume 0644 permissions. The root ownership still protects it. -Steve -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list