Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro wrote:
If other users have full control over the file (and surrounding directory),
shouldn't they be able to change its date?
Mode 777 does not mean full control; it merely means read, write, and execute
access is granted to everybody. Other users still cannot chmod
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Additional information:
On 12/16/2015 01:19 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Hello,
On 12/16/2015 09:39 AM, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro wrote:
The following code fails whenever the specified date is different from `now`:
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I see no description of that in the
Hello,
On 12/16/2015 09:39 AM, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro wrote:
The following code fails whenever the specified date is different from `now`:
$ mkdir testdir; chmod 777 testdir; cd testdir
$ touch file; chmod 777 file
$ su another_user
$ touch -d 'now' file # works
$ touch -d 'yesterday' file
The following code fails whenever the specified date is different from
`now`:
$ mkdir testdir; chmod 777 testdir; cd testdir
$ touch file; chmod 777 file
$ su another_user
$ touch -d 'now' file # works
$ touch -d 'yesterday' file # fails
touch: setting times of ‘file’: Operation not permitted
