There's nothing to fix.  Log back in as that test user, try to rm the 
file, and tell it yes when it asks about removing the write protected 
file.  You'll see that you get an error that you couldn't do it.

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Rend, Jon (Jon) % wrote:

> I am new to RED-HAT Linux but I was amazed at this behavior and can't find
> anything on it.
>  
> I created some dummy files as/owned by root on my WS with only "r"
> permission bit set for group and world. Then I logged into the same box as a
> dumb test user with no privileges and used "rm" to remove the file and god
> damn it I was given the option to remove the "write protected file"
>  
> How do you turn this off, do I have to use the non GNU "rm". Anyone help ???
>  
> 
> Jon :-) 
> 
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