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Re: what's this supposed to be???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Wed Nov 18 06:12:54 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:13:44 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981118115944.4551B-100000@snt-gw.snt.isternet.sk>; from Tomas Buday on Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 12:05:40PM +0100
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Tomas Buday writes:
> hi there,
> look at this session:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
[...]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> any comments?
I'm not quite sure what you problem is, but maybe a few explanations might
be helpful.
Ok, you logged in as user and then issued the "su" command. As you didn't
use "su -", you become root, but the directory stays the same (and so does
the environment!). Hence, you're still in the user's directory. (For more
info on su: man su).
Then, you create a file as root in the user's directory and log back out to
become yourself again. And now, as an ordinary user, you're able to remove a
file created by root in your directory - and that's correct. It's your user
directory, so you have the full power over it's contents, be they put there
by somebody else or not.
Does that help you?
Thomas
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