On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 2:26 am, cervixcouch wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 09:09 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > You are right, from directories other than the /home/belardi it cannot > > be deleted (I tried '/' '/etc' '/home'). But still, I think that some > > time ago I tried to delete a root file from my home, and had to su to > > manage. > > > > On everybody else's system its' the same? > > i just tried it on my system and the same thing happens. Hadn't noticed > before that I could delete a root-owned file if it was in my home > directory. > > very curious...
Why would you want something in your home directory that you couldn't delete? I'm not being obtuse - is there any reason you can think of that would make root place a file in your home directory but not want you to be able to delete it? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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