Hi there, On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Bob Miller wrote:
Were you expecting something different?
Not necessarily, but it tells me something. :)
Or more likely, am I missing something obvious here?
You might be. Please look at the permissions of the parent directory. You might then want to make changes to those permissions and once more repeat your tests. Note: In a *n[iu]x system you can delete a file in a directory to which you can write, even if you can't write (nor even read) the said file. That's because a directory is effectively just a file, and putting a new file in a directory or removing a file from it is just making a modification to the content of the file that you know as the directory. Of course the OS makes its own modifications to the directory too (things like access times and file sizes) and the OS can do what it likes, but the directory's permissions are about what users (or more correctly processes with given user's permissions) can do to them. When the parent directory permits both your users to write to it I think you will see results from your tests that you don't expect.
Thank you again for your time...
I appreciate it, but we're all learning from this. :) -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
