On Friday 07 March 2003 04:03 am, you wrote: > I am running MDK9.0 with msec 3, vanilla kernel. I just noticed that, as > a normal user, I am able to delete root-owned files (with -rw-r--r-- > rights). I don't know when it started, I am almost sure it was not this > way last time I tried. > > Does anybody have a similar issue?
The permission to delete a file depends on the permissions on the directory the file lives in, not on the permissions on the file itself. Just as you can link a file that you don't have read permissions to into a directory you have write permissions in you can also unlink it from that directory.
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