On Friday 07 March 2003 04:04 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 06:03 am, Raffaele Belardi 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? > > > > Here's the command sequence. User 'belardi' belongs to groups 'belardi' > > and 'users'. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] belardi]$ su > > Password: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] belardi]# touch test.txt > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] belardi]# ll > > total 16 > > drwxr--r-- 16 belardi belardi 4096 Feb 27 15:55 documents/ > > drwxr--r-- 8 belardi belardi 4096 Jul 3 2002 ffjuser30/ > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 belardi belardi 8 Dec 10 19:22 mp3 -> /var/mp3/ > > drwxr--r-- 8 belardi belardi 4096 Mar 7 11:17 projects/ > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 7 11:52 test.txt > > drwxr--r-- 6 belardi belardi 4096 Mar 6 15:39 tmp/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] belardi]# exit > > exit > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] belardi]$ rm test.txt > > rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `test.txt'? y > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] belardi]$ ll > > total 16 > > drwxr--r-- 16 belardi belardi 4096 Feb 27 15:55 documents/ > > drwxr--r-- 8 belardi belardi 4096 Jul 3 2002 ffjuser30/ > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 belardi belardi 8 Dec 10 19:22 mp3 -> /var/mp3/ > > drwxr--r-- 8 belardi belardi 4096 Mar 7 11:17 projects/ > > drwxr--r-- 6 belardi belardi 4096 Mar 6 15:39 tmp/ > > > > thanks, > > > > raffaele > > Is it because it is an empty file in your home directory? Did you try it > with a file that had something in it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] tester]$ mkdir clean [EMAIL PROTECTED] tester]$ cd clean [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]$ echo "1" >test.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]# echo "1" > testr.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]# ll total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Mar 7 08:29 testr.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 tester tester 2 Mar 7 08:28 test.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]# exit exit [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]$ rm testr.txt rm: remove write-protected regular file `testr.txt'? y [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]$ ll total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 tester tester 2 Mar 7 08:28 test.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]$
No it is not because it"had something in it" The fact is that files in YOUR home directory belong to you, the user, and you can chown chmod and delete them as you choose. [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]# mkdir -p /home/george [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]# cd /home/george [EMAIL PROTECTED] george]# echo "1" > testr.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] george]# exit exit [EMAIL PROTECTED] clean]$ cd /home/george [EMAIL PROTECTED] george]$ rm testr.txt rm: remove write-protected regular file `testr.txt'? y rm: cannot remove `testr.txt': Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] george]$ This is normal operation!!! Civileme
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