[CLUE-Tech] Permissions?

[Jim Ockers]

Angelo,

> I'm a little hazy on all the caveats for file permissions after the
> following occured to me:
> 
> I was a member of the group that owned the file, but the write permission
> was NOT set for the group, and I was able to delete the file.  It did ask
> me "remove read only file?" but it still allowed me when I said yes.  The
> owner had both read and write set.  Why would it allow me to remove the
> file if I don't have write permission?

You can unlink files in a directory to which you have write permission.

If you have write permission to a directory with the "sticky" bit set 
like /tmp, then you cannot unlink files that you do not own, unless you 
are root.

HTH, HAND.

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