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- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 94 12:29:56 +0200
- Message-Id: <9405111029.AA15363@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- To: Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk
- In-Reply-To: <14744.9405111009@elvis.earth.ox.ac.uk> (message from Stephen Usher on Wed, 11 May 1994 11:09:10 +0100 (BST))
- Subject: Re: Deleting owned files...
-
- Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk> writes:
-
- |> Under BSD the symatics are:-
-
- |> drwxrwxrwx Anyone can delete, create or rename files.
- |> drwxr-xr-x Only owner of directory can do the above.
- |> drwxrwtrwx Anyone can create or delete their own files, no-one
- |> else (other than root) can do so.
- |> (I think the t is in the right place.. it's the sticky bit anyway.)
-
- It's drwxrwxrwt
-
- |> The important thing is the directory's protection, not the file's, which
- |> determines who can do what to files in the directory, other than for
- |> chown'ing. To chown a file you need to be the owner or root.
-
- Under BSD you cannot chown unless you are root, even the owner (of the
- file) cannot. Otherwise you could fill up other peoples quotas :-)
-
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