[CLUE-Tech] Permissions?

[Angelo Bertolli]

Then... aside from setting the sticky bit, you essentially have write 
access to any file in a directory you have write access to?  I mean 
unlinking and creating a new file with the same name is essentiall the 
same thing as changing the file, right?

>You can unlink files in a directory to which you have write permission.
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>If you have write permission to a directory with the "sticky" bit set 
>like /tmp, then you cannot unlink files that you do not own, unless you 
>are root.
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>HTH, HAND.
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