Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:56:56 -0400 From: Michael Rothenberg <rothenberg@automationonline.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stickybit (Was: Permissions for users in general) Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19991027095656.007296f0@slider> In-Reply-To: <19991027095853.E34924@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> References: <4.1.19991026211759.009434a0@mail.udel.edu> <Your <3.0.3.32.19991026093038.007274e8@slider> <26526.940948091@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <4.1.19991026211759.009434a0@mail.udel.edu>
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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
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