File Access - Does Owner Access Override Group Access?

William E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at steinmetz.ge.com
Fri May 20 01:39:55 AEST 1988


  On most systems you can delete anything if you own the directory in
which it resides. The ownership and permissions are not checked, I can
remove a file owned by root with 000 mode.

  This may not be true on all systems.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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