In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Removing a directory requires write permission on the directory
> itself, because you have to delete the "." and ".." links inside the
> directory.

no:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mkdir /home/test
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# chmod 0 /home/test
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld /home /home/test
drwxrwxr-x  12 root adm 123 Jan  2 22:12 /home/
d---------  2  root root  6 Jan  2 22:14 /home/test/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# exit
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> id
uid=1001(ecki) gid=1001(ecki) 
groups=0(root),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),29(audio),38(list),1001(ecki)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rmdir /home/test

Greetings
Bernd


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