[CLUE-Tech] Permissions?

[marcus hall]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 08:46:27PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> 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?

So long as there is only one link to the file in the filesystem.  If there
are more links to the file, you can only change the link(s) from
directories that you can write.

Marcus Hall
marcus at tuells.org