2009/1/21 Steve Grubb <sgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > This makes part of it useless: If the owner is root but I still can delete/modify the file (because if dir permissions) then the ownership doesn't matter. The file was set to 444. The idea was to have a file that cannot be deleted/modified but only read by everyone regardless of the directory permissions. And the only suitable answer is to set it +i. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
