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
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