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Re: what's this supposed to be???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Wed Nov 18 15:48:08 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:47:21 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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"Carey F. Cox" wrote:
>
> I'll try to answer this. Basically, root wrote a file in the directory
> owned by you. All files under a user's directory can be removed by
> said user. All files under a user's directory exist at the user's
> discretion. The user cannot access the files if he doesn't have
> permission, but he can sure remove them.
I did post, but seems to have been lost in the shuffle, that root
can put a file in the user directory that can not be erased by the
user.
See "man chattr" and "man lsattr" for details.
Specifically, if the file is called "abcd", then this command will
make it immutable:
prompt # chattr +i abcd
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