Does that not also work for ext3? If not, is there an equivalent
"extended attribute" set? Surely you can still implement something like
that in the advanced file system...?

--- "Eric R." <rossiter@discoverynet.com> wrote:
> set the immutable bit if it's an ext2 file system
> 
> chattr -i filename
> 
> HTH,
> E
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > If I take away the user's ownership of the directory, the user
> can't
> > delete the files.  But it's important that the user own the
> directory.
> > 
> > Any way to accomplish this?
> > 
> > ~Adam Davis
> > 
> > 
> > 
> majordomo@kclug.org
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> majordomo@kclug.org

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