When you remove a file, it's the directory that's being modified to no longer have the file in it.... hence it's the directory permissions that matter.
drwxr-xr-x 2 mikel mikel 4096 Oct 27 15:38 aide_files
Ah. Now I understand. Well that make it much easier for me.
The aide program creates the report owned by root:root but its run by me via sudo in a dir owned by me. After copying the report back to my local machine I then delete the report from the server.
I was surprised I was able to rm it and I dont have to use sudo to do it.
Thanks also to Bevan for your post.
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