On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff <yks-...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > The owner of a directory is able to delete any files in it. It would really > be weird otherwise. >
I think, to be more precise, anybody with write and execute access to a directory (whether the owner or not) can remove files from a directory, unless the directory's sticky bit is set. If the sticky bit is set then only the owner of the directory can remove files not owned by themselves (ie, for /tmp). I believe having write access to the file itself is also sufficient to delete it. -- Rich
