Re: rm files owned by root?

[Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2004-12@lina.inka.de>]

In article <[🔎] 20050102143834.3ce1af0e@sarge> you wrote:
> So if my /home/ is 775 and root.users and I'm in the group users I can
> delete everybody's home directory?

You need write access to the /home dir, then you can delete other uses
homes. But to delete a directory, it must be empty. And you cant empty it if
you cant get into it or have write access inside.

However you can delete empty dirs and files if you dont own them or have
write access to them, yes.

Greetings
Bernd