Unexpected change of file owner:group

Chasecreek Systemhouse chasecreek.systemhouse at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 15:36:36 UTC 2006


On 1/20/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn at gmail.com> wrote:

> When the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that
> directory may be unlinked or renamed only by root or
> their owner.  Without the sticky bit, anyone able to
> write to the directory can delete or rename files.

Further down it will say that the sticky bit isn't all that "honored'
these days too...

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