Re: ext2 attribute immutable

Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:10:49 -0500


From: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:44:36 +0100

I've discovered yesterday taht setting an inode (you might call that
file) immutable prevents me from moving it. Usually UN*X attributes
affect the inode only. Is that intentional?

This is intentional. Otherwise, even if someone made /etc/passwd
immutable, you could bypass the security by moving /etc/passwd out of
the way and creating a new, modified file.

- Ted