From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 6:59:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nautilus.shore.net (nautilus.shore.net [207.244.124.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A3214A1D for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 06:59:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rothenberg@automationonline.com) Received: from shore.shore.net [192.233.85.136] by nautilus.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) id 11gTbS-0000Hz-00; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:59:02 -0400 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by shore.shore.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id JAA00814; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:58:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from baffle. automationonline.com by slider.automationonline.com via SMTP (911016.SGI/911001.SGI) for shore!freebsd.org!freebsd-questions id AA11554; Wed, 27 Oct 99 10:01:02 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991027095656.007296f0@slider> X-Sender: rothenberg@slider X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:56:56 -0400 To: Ruslan Ermilov From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Re: Stickybit (Was: Permissions for users in general) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19991027095853.E34924@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> References: <4.1.19991026211759.009434a0@mail.udel.edu> <26526.940948091@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <4.1.19991026211759.009434a0@mail.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:58 AM 10/27/99 +0300, you wrote: >> >See sticky(8). > >-- >Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the >ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, >ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, >+380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine Ok and here is sticky(8) exerpt: *A directory whose `sticky bit' is set becomes an append-only directory, *or, more accurately, a directory in which the deletion of files is re- *stricted. A file in a sticky directory may only be removed or renamed by *a user if the user has write permission for the directory and the user is *the owner of the file, the owner of the directory, or the super-user. *This feature is usefully applied to directories such as /tmp which must *be publicly writable but should deny users the license to arbitrarily *delete or rename each others' files. *Any user may create a sticky directory. See chmod(1) for details about *modifying file modes. This says that a file can be renamed by a user with write permission. Then a few sentances later in the example it says something opposite????? Which is it? If a dir is set sticky can a user with write permissions to that directory rename a file? Doesn't make sence if they can... I would try it, but I'm at work and we dont have FBSD here... }:( -Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message