Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:31:05 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Robert Ftizpatrick <robert@webtent.com> Cc: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com>, Tofik Suleymanov <tofik@oxygen.az>, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Override prompt when deleting a file Message-ID: <437E01C9.50209@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <1132330095.30630.16.camel@columbus.webtent.org> References: <1132321525.30630.3.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <44wtj6m2kz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <1132326705.30630.7.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <437E1478.8040501@oxygen.az> <437DFA2F.6090205@ywave.com> <1132330095.30630.16.camel@columbus.webtent.org>
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Robert Ftizpatrick wrote: >On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 07:58 -0800, Micah wrote: > > >>>>>>I'm logged in to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 box as 'admin' via ssh, why would I >>>>>>receive this override prompt? >>>>>> >>>>>>-bash-2.05b$ ls -la massage.xls >>>>>>-rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 4463104 Aug 29 17:25 massage.xls >>>>>>-bash-2.05b$ rm massage.xls >>>>>>override rw-r--r-- admin/admin for massage.xls? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>Check the permissions on the directory? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>-bash-2.05b$ ls -la >>>>total 460441 >>>>drwxr-xr-x 18 admin admin 1024 Nov 18 08:38 . >>>>drwxr-xr-x 5 admin admin 512 Jan 4 2005 .. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>To original poster: is the immutable bit set on the file? >> >> > >I don't believe so...is this how you tell? > >-bash-2.05b$ ls -lo massage.xls >-rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin - 4463104 Aug 29 17:25 massage.xls > > see chflags(1). Most likely it is. If you really want the file gone, (as root*): #chflags noschg massage.xls #rm massage.xls HTH, KDK *admin is _also_ a UID 0 account? Seems that could be dangerous?
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