Hello all,
Thank you for your response in advance. I am running i386 FreeBSD 7.2 p4 on an HP DL380 G2. I upgraded from 6.1 p23 in March but the machine was built last fall. I am not at liberty to upgrade the machine due to its purpose. However I agree it is time. I had been using sticky bits set on directories to allow groups of users to upload files but making sure only the file or directory owner could modify the file. The directory owner would retrieve the file and delete it. It seems that my later release no longer allows the directory owner to manipulate (delete) the files. This functioned in the earlier release. The documentation sees to be at odds. The current Freebsd Handbook claims that only the file owner is allowed to manipulate a file loaded in the directory where the sticky bit is set. However, in the man pages, sticky(8) claims that root, the directory owner, and the file owner are allowed to manipulate (write/delete) the file. It appears that I have found a bug in documentation or code. Can you tell me where the issue is, code or documentation? If this is a conscious change by the project, can you suggest an alternate method to achieve the functionality? I apologize if I missed documentation that describes this as a change. Thank you, Ray _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
