Re: buglet in ext2 sticky bit?

Gabor Lenart (lgb@oxygene.terra.vein.hu)
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:46:01 +0200

On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:19:34PM +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> japetus /tmp rm -f aap
> rm: cannot unlink `aap': Operation not permitted
> japetus /tmp id
> uid=363(fvm) gid=215(sec) groups=215(sec),3972(owner),9998(inet1),9999(inet2),9997(inet3)
> japetus /tmp uname -a
> Linux japetus.localdomain 2.2.13pre9 #1 Sat Sep 18 21:32:21 MEST 1999 i486 unknown
>
>
> AFAIK a file writable for everyone should be deletable when
> +t on the parent dir.

I think no. In a directory with rights 0777 everyone remove any file as far
as I know. +t for directories make to deletable files in it only by its owner
(root can delete though). Correct me please, if I wrong.

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