* Thomas Bushnell:
Only if it's empty. You could rename it to /tmp on most
installations, where it would be deleted after the next reboot.
Both wrong.
Removing a directory requires write permission on the directory
itself, because you have to delete the . and .. links inside the
Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a Unix FAQ. You can delete any file if you have write access
to the directory. Actually you dont delete the file, you remove the
link to the
So if my /home/ is 775 and root.users and I'm in the group users I can
delete everybody's home
* Ulrich Fürst:
Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a Unix FAQ. You can delete any file if you have write access
to the directory. Actually you dont delete the file, you remove the
link to the
So if my /home/ is 775 and root.users and I'm in the group users I can
delete
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
So if my /home/ is 775 and root.users and I'm in the group users I can
delete everybody's home directory?
You need write access to the /home dir, then you can delete other uses
homes. But to delete a directory, it must be empty. And you cant empty it if
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
But to delete a directory, it must be empty.
That's not completely true. You can unlink() (delete) a directory without it
being empty. rmdir won't do it, but it's possible. Note: don't do this unless
absolutely necessary, and always remount the volume ro and fsck it after
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:33:00AM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote:
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
But to delete a directory, it must be empty.
That's not completely true. You can unlink() (delete) a directory without it
being empty. rmdir won't do it, but it's possible.
Not on linux.
Mike Stone
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To
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Not on linux.
Well, he can of course remove the directory entry with a fs debug tool or
disk editor. But thats not possible with user rights w/o raw access richts
to the device. However I think sys_unlink wont do it. I was looking for the
source but this
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Ulrich Frst:
Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a Unix FAQ. You can delete any file if you have write access
to the directory. Actually you dont delete the file, you remove the
link to the
So if my /home/ is 775 and
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Removing a directory requires write permission on the directory
itself, because you have to delete the . and .. links inside the
directory.
no:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mkdir /home/test
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# chmod 0 /home/test
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld
if you are in group adm and the /home allows adm group to write to it,
you will be able to remove the directory test? inside /home/
to be right you will need to do this:
as root:
chmod 0700 /home
mkdir /home/test
chmod 0 /home/test
ls -ld /home/test
should show root:root owner of /home/test and
This one time, at band camp, Luis M said:
if you are in group adm and the /home allows adm group to write to it,
you will be able to remove the directory test? inside /home/
to be right you will need to do this:
as root:
chmod 0700 /home
mkdir /home/test
chmod 0 /home/test
ls -ld
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
if you are in group adm and the /home allows adm group to write to it,
you will be able to remove the directory test? inside /home/
Yes, thats what this thread is about. I can remove an *empty* dir, even if i
dont have permissions inside the dir. All I
Hi all,
I'm seriously troubled by behaviour of my system I just encountered:
If i do (as root):
touch /home/user/a
Then (as user);
rm /home/user/a
It asks if I want to remove this file, since it's write protected. If I say
y, then the file gets deleted. But it shouldn't be! Should it?
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 08:22:08PM +0100, dekkker wrote:
I'm seriously troubled by behaviour of my system I just encountered:
If i do (as root):
touch /home/user/a
Then (as user);
rm /home/user/a
It asks if I want to remove this file, since it's write protected. If I say
y, then the
afaik, its because the owner of the folder the file is located is has w
permission.
I could be wrong, but I was thinking about this myself a few days ago.
dekkker wrote:
Hi all,
I'm seriously troubled by behaviour of my system I just encountered:
If i do (as root):
touch /home/user/a
Then (as
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
It asks if I want to remove this file, since it's write protected. If I
say y, then the file gets deleted. But it shouldn't be! Should it?
This is a Unix FAQ. You can delete any file if you have write access to the
directory. Actually you dont delete the
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 08:22:08PM +0100, dekkker wrote:
It asks if I want to remove this file, since it's write protected. If I
say y, then the file gets deleted. But it shouldn't be! Should it?
As the others have said, this behaviour is to be expected.
If your filesystem is ext2 or ext3,
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