Re: [SLE] file permissions?

From: Mark Hounschell (dmarkh_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 08/27/03

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    zentara wrote:
    >
    > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:28:57 -0400
    > Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
    >
    > >I have a file
    > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149811 2003-08-07 17:49 xx
    > >
    > >As a regular user I edit the file. Make some changes and write it back.
    > >Now the file is
    > >-rw-r--r-- 1 markh users 149811 2003-08-27 12:23 xx
    > >
    > >Am I missing something? Why was I able to write the file? Why was its
    > >owner and project changed from root to the users? Do the directory
    > >permissions override the file permissions? I must be missing
    > >something????
    >
    > A user can COPY and edit and save a file owned by root, but the result
    > is a file owned by the user.
    > You didn't change root's file. You made a copy owned by you.
    >

    I must still be missing something. It is in fact the same file. It was
    owned by root
    now it is owned by markh?? I made no copy. It is the same file.

    Doesn't
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149811 2003-08-07 17:49 xx
    mean it is owned by root?

    ???
    Mark 

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