Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:46:28 +0100 (CET) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> To: Phillip Neumann <bob@sofsis.cl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ftpd Message-ID: <20050125134203.A33566@maren.thelosingend.net> In-Reply-To: <41F04E8A.4060101@sofsis.cl> References: <41F04E8A.4060101@sofsis.cl>
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* Phillip Neumann [2005-01-21 00:36 -0000] > 2) > > I dont understand permitions... > > i.e. > lftp usuarioftp@localhost:~> ls root-file > -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 22 19:12 root-file > lftp usuarioftp@10.0.0.56:~> mv root-file why_can_i_do_this > rename successful I'm guessing that the directory in which the file resides is writable for the ftp-user. The user cannot read or write to the file itself, but it can read and write to the directory. That means that the user can delete and rename any file in that directory, but not copy (because that requires read-permissions).
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