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Re: what's this supposed to be???

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Wed Nov 18 07:28:45 1998

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 03:24:36 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Tomas Buday wrote:
> 
> 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.

If root wants to put a file in there that is unerasable by the
directory owner, then the immutable attribute has to be set.

In the meantime, check out "man chattr"  in your case, root 
would need to do "chattr +i abcd" and it would be safe.

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