Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Newbie with a few questions..
From: Vivek (vivek@imaginet.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 25 1998 - 05:07:41 EST
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Danny Carroll wrote:
> I tried creating one for them (empty) and chown.chmodding it but I found that
> even though root owned the file.. You could rename it from the Mac... - BAD
>
> I wonder if you can do this to other files say /etc/passwd??
The ability to move/delete a file depends on the directory permissions:
You aren't altering the file itself, but the directory it is in. After
all, if it's your directory, you get a say as to what lives there and what
doesn't. It might take a bit of getting used to initially, but it all
starts to make sense if you think about it for a while. Think of it like
this - you aren't moving/deleting the file: you're removing/changing an
entry that points to that file from the directory.
-- fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/cortex
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