From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 4 06:54:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA23380 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 May 1997 06:54:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA23375 for ; Sun, 4 May 1997 06:54:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak (ai-129 [207.14.72.129]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA08020; Sun, 4 May 1997 04:50:53 -0800 Message-ID: <336C14FE.41C67EA6@anchorage.net> Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 20:47:58 -0800 From: abc xyz X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Devil Himself CC: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: permissions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Devil Himself wrote: > > On Sat, 3 May 1997, Steve Howe wrote: > > > > > why is it that i can open, modify, and save changes to a > > file with r--r--r-- perms (as root)? shouldn't a file be > > read only under these conditions? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > What do you mean, "as root"? i mean i can do these things as root (2.2.1). i guess i should've added that the files ARE owner root, group wheel. i don't think i should be able to modify such files, but i can. it's interesting that you say you can't. are you using 2.2.1? > If the file belongs to root, and you are anyone, including root, then you > have a problem. > Doesn't sound like a common one, because I had some files on my system > r--r--r-- owner root, group wheel, and I got annoyed because I couldn't > save changes, even as root. > |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| -------------------------------------------------------------------------