Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:49:01 +0200 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: buglet in ext2 sticky bit? |
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> japetus /tmp ls -ld . aap > drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 1024 Oct 24 22:17 . > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 30 Oct 24 22:11 aap > japetus /tmp rm -f aap > rm: cannot unlink `aap': Operation not permitted > japetus /tmp id > uid=363(fvm) gid=215(sec) groups=215(sec),3972(owner),9998(inet1),9999(inet2),9997(inet3) > japetus /tmp uname -a > Linux japetus.localdomain 2.2.13pre9 #1 Sat Sep 18 21:32:21 MEST 1999 i486 unknown > > > AFAIK a file writable for everyone should be deletable when > +t on the parent dir. As far as I know this is correct behaviour... Rights on deleted file have no impact on its unlinking (OK, with the exception to the IMMUTABLE and APPEND bits...) - what matters is *only* a directory. When it has sticky bit set than file can be deleted only by its owner or owner of the directory.
Honza.
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