Re: rm files owned by root?

[Robert Vangel <vangelr@rfgt.net>]

afaik, its because the owner of the folder the file is located is has w 
permission.

I could be wrong, but I was thinking about this myself a few days ago.

dekkker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm seriously troubled by behaviour of my system I just encountered:
>
> If i do (as root):
> touch /home/user/a 
>
> Then (as user);
> rm /home/user/a
>
> It asks if I want to remove this file, since it's write protected. If I say "y", then the file gets deleted. But it shouldn't be! Should it? 
>
> (Sorry if this is a dumb question.)
>
> Hope you can help,
>
> Raphael from Swizerland

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