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
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Registered Linux User No.293302


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