Marc,

thanks for enlightening me.

Clark


Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> This is expected behaviour, and is how Unix permissions work.
>
> Since your user has write permission on your Desktop directory, you can
> delete files there even if they are owned by root. If you can read the
> file, you can copy it to your trash folder, and delete the one on your
> desktop. The file is now owned by you.
>
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
>        Status: New => Invalid
>
>

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File permissions changed via trash in Ubuntu 8.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/611778
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