On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 08:22:08PM +0100, dekkker wrote: > I'm seriously troubled by behaviour of my system I just encountered: > > If i do (as root): > touch /home/user/a > > Then (as user); > rm /home/user/a > > It asks if I want to remove this file, since it's write protected. If I say > "y", then the file gets deleted. But it shouldn't be! Should it? > > (Sorry if this is a dumb question.)
User can delete files in his own directory cause he has rwx permissions, so
he can read files from that directory, list that directory and _remove_
files from that directory.
So this behaviour is usual.
regards
fEnIo
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