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Re: what's this supposed to be???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas Buday)
Wed Nov 18 06:17:12 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:17:37 +0100 (CET)
From: Tomas Buday <tomas@snt.sk>
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In-Reply-To: <19981118111344.B15406@adbvdesign.analog.com>
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ok, thanks a lot....just thought that a file owned by root:root
(or anyone else) just can't be removed by me even though it's in my $HOME.
> 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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