On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:45:26PM -0500, Mike McLean wrote: > >> Furthermore, when the user is root, the 0555 mode will not prevent >> writing as it would for normal users. > > It does not matter, whether the user is root, but whether he has the > dac_override capability. If you read the original mail (1st paragraph) > again with this in mind, you will understand the reason for the change. Does a lack of the dac_override capability prevent root from chmod'ing its own files? -- Garrett Holmstrom -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel