--- alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > For example. If you list a directory you only see > the > > files that you have some rights to and files where > you > > have no rights are invisible to you. If a file is > read > > only to you then you can't delete it either. > Having > > write access to a directory really means that you > have > > file create rights. You can also delete files that > you > > have write access to. You would also allocate > > permissions to manage file rights like being able > to > > set the rights of inferior users. > > Imagine the fun you will have trying to write a file > name and being told > you cannot write it for some unknown reason. > Unbeknownst to you, there is > a file there, but it is not owned by you, thus > invisible. > > Making a file system more user oriented would avoid > little gotchas like > this. The reason it is "programmer oriented" is > that those are the people > who have worked out why it works and why certain > things are bad ideas. >
That not a problem - it's a feature. In such a situation the person would get a general file creation error. Although it isn't likely people would structure files with invisible files in directories that the user has create permissions it is logical that if I put a file in a place where the user has no rights I want it to stay there. Currently the user can delete files where they have no rights. I might also want to restrict the kind of a user can createor give permission to create only certian file names. /etc/vz/conf/*.conf - create - readonly - self-rw /etc/vz/conf - deny This would allow the user to read all *.conf files, create new *.conf files, and full permissions to read/write/delete files that the user created but not files that others created. If listing a directory then only the *.conf files would appear even if other files are in the directory. Marc Perkel Junk Email Filter dot com http://www.junkemailfilter.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
