File Permission

Andrew Moore amoore at mooresystems.com
Thu Apr 3 22:59:48 CST 2003


On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:43:51PM -0600, Adam Davis wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to create a file in another user's directory that that user can
> read but can't delete.  Simply chowning it to root and chmoding it 744,
> 444, anything seems to fail.  The user is able to delete the file despite
> the lack of write permissions.

You might find that "chattr +1 <file>" does what you're 
looking for.

-Andy




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