From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 18:25:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16532 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:25:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (kf7nn@dal36-27.ppp.iadfw.net [206.66.14.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16486 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:24:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from kf7nn@localhost) by mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id UAA00344 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 20:24:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kf7nn) From: George Vagner Message-Id: <199802070224.UAA00344@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Subject: sticky bit problem To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 20:24:50 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I am trying to make my /usr/ftp/incoming directory writeable but the files in it undeleteable. i am logging in as anonymous without password and can put files in and also delete them, i dont want people to be able to delete them... i tried some of these commands without success chmod 1777 /usr/ftp/incoming chown root /usr/ftp/incoming chgrp wheel /usr/ftp/incoming chmod 1755 /usr/ftp/incoming (cant write to it now) I read the man pages on sticky and even printed them out. i made the directory owned by root and group wheel with permissions set to 1777 but i still can delete the files in the directory? what am i doing wrong here? should files in the incoming directory be deleteable according to these permissions? $ ls -la total 6 dr-xr-xr-x 6 root operator 512 Feb 6 14:52 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 512 Feb 5 09:46 .. dr-xr-xr-x 2 root operator 512 Feb 4 23:26 bin dr-xr-xr-x 2 root operator 512 Feb 4 23:26 etc drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 512 Feb 6 17:40 incoming drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp operator 512 Feb 6 15:53 pub