From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 30 16:27:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367AB16AB1D for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 16:27:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C76343D82 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 16:26:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id ACC6B5C2E; Tue, 30 May 2006 12:30:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:30:17 -0500 From: Wesley Shields To: Eric Anderson Message-ID: <20060530173017.GA68924@atarininja.org> References: <447C6BCF.50908@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <447C6BCF.50908@centtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: truncate tool - must be root? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:27:13 -0000 On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:59:11AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Is it expected that truncate(8) must be used by a superuser? If so, > then the man page should probably mention it. If not, then it's broken :) > > > Eric I can use truncate on files I own without a problem. Who owns the files? A quick experiment indicates that even setting a file to mode 647 when owned by root:wheel doesn't allow it to be operated on by anyone other than root when using truncate. -- WXS