On 04/29/2010 04:47 PM, Matthew B. Smith wrote:
> If I set the permissions of a file to be read only I can still delete
> it, or modify it w/out warning.

> This is an administrator acct if that affects the issue.  I am using 1.7

Yes, that makes a difference.  I bet if you became root on your Ubuntu
system, and did the same test, you'd notice the same behavior.  In other
words, running as admin does give you additional permissions above and
beyond those implied by the mode bits.

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Eric Blake   ebl...@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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