On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:09:22PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <[🔎] 20090506023930.GB12613@samad.com.au>, Alex Samad wrote: > >how can you create files in $HOME that the owner of $HOME can't delete > >? > > bss@monster:~$ sudo mkdir data > [sudo] password for bss: > bss@monster:~$ sudo touch data/file > bss@monster:~$ rm -rf data > rm: cannot remove `data/file': Permission denied > bss@monster:~$ ls -ld data > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 2009-05-05 23:07 data > bss@monster:~$ rmdir data > rmdir: failed to remove `data': Directory not empty yes, had a brain fart, forgot you have to do a depth first deletion -- "Let me just first tell you that I�ve never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions." - George W. Bush 09/12/2006 Washington, DC said to journalists in the Oval Office (as reported by the National Review)
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