> - The flag can be set by any user
> - The owner may not change
> - The file can not be read
Wait, so any user can cause any file on the system to become
unreadable? I suspect the script kiddies would have fun with setting
that flag on root-owned files. Even if the owner can unset the flag,
you could disrupt a lot of things by causing various files to be
temporarily unreadable.
--nat
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