On April 14, 2005 07:55 pm, David.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On April 14, 2005 02:56 pm, David.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > RedHat List, > > I was working on a script the other day and ran into > > an anomaly with the file permission's on files. I have > > checked this on several ES servers and all produce the same > > results. As Tobias pointed out, you can get the behaviour you want (almost) by setting the sticky bit on the directory; man chmod. Note that the man page is slightly wrong unclear. With the sticky bit on the directory the file may be deleted by either the file's owner or the directory's owner. In your case it won't help because the user is the directory owner and so can remove the file. Compare that to /tmp where root is the directory owner and the directory has the sticky bit set, so the non-root user won't be able to delete root's files (or anyone else's) References: - W. Richard Stevens' "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment" (generally accepted as quite authoritative), sections 4.5 and 4.10 - Single Unix Specification V3 - General Concepts - Directory Protection -- Bill Medland mailto:billmedland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
