On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:44:30PM -0700, Anand Avati wrote: > Even in the case where bugc1.txt got a wrong uid returned (assuming so), it > should not influence the permissibility of it getting deleted. The > deletability of a file is based on the permissions on the parent directory > and not the ownership of the file (unless +t sticky bit was set on the > directory). This is interesting: I get the behavior you describe on Linux (ext2fs), but NetBSD (FFS) hehaves differently (these are native test, without glusterfs). Is it a grey area in standards? $ ls -la test/ total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 22 10:10 . drwxr-xr-x 19 manu wheel 5632 May 22 10:10 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 manu wheel 0 May 22 10:10 toto $ whoami manu $ rm -f test/toto rm: test/toto: Permission denied $ uname -sr NetBSD 5.1_STABLE -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu@xxxxxxxxxx
