Re: can't delete a file
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 01:14, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I created a file as root and chown it to a common account, then su to
> that account, trying to delete it as that account but failed. Any idea?
>
> # touch todel
> # chown pahud todel
> # ls -l todel
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pahud root 0 Sep 4 16:08 todel
> # su pahud
>
> > rm -f todel
>
> rm: cannot unlink `todel': Permission denied
>
> > ls -al todel
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pahud root 0 Sep 4 16:08 todel
Check the permissions of the directory the file is in.
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