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Re: can touch(1) readonly files



On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:59:24PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> But how can I protect _myself_ from _myself_?

you cant, since you always can change the permissions of the file back to
writeable.

Protection from yourself, especially if you are root are extended Unix
features (like for example immutable and append only files, RBAC or
SELinux).

And it is still not a core-utils bug but a property of the Linux kernel.

Greetings
Bernd
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