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Re: rm files owned by root?



* Ulrich Fürst:

> Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2004-12@lina.inka.de> wrote: 
>> This is a Unix FAQ. You can delete any file if you have write access
>> to the directory. Actually you dont delete the file, you remove the
>> "link" to the
>
> So if my /home/ is 775 and root.users and I'm in the group users I can
> delete everybody's home directory?

Only if it's empty.  You could rename it to /tmp on most
installations, where it would be deleted after the next reboot.



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