Re: Odd filesystem permission handling

Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:56:40 -0400

On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 10:19:04AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Logged in as user "mharris" and in my home dir, I had a dir
> called "down" owned by root.root with perms 755.
>
> This dir had files in it.
>
> As "mharris" I tried to chown the dir to mharris.mharris, and I
> got permission denied. I then tried "rm -rf down/" also as
> mharris, and it successfully let me remove the directory.
>

It doesn't on 2.2.10:
$ ls -ld 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 10:52 1
$ ls -l 1
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 arvind arvind 0 Jun 17 10:52 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 arvind arvind 0 Jun 17 10:52 2
$ rm -fr 1
rm: cannot unlink `1/1': Permission denied
rm: cannot unlink `1/2': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `1': Directory not empty

-- arvind

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