gedit ownership problem
Yard, John
jyard at ais.ucla.edu
Thu Feb 9 18:18:36 UTC 2006
Sticky bit not set :
drwxrwxrwx 5 xma xma 4096 Feb 8 11:23 TESTFILE
Jyard
UCLA AIS
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jack Challen
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:31 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: gedit ownership problem
Sorry, replying to the reply -- seem to have lost the original mail
> Yard, John wrote:
>> When using gedit, I have users who cannot edit a file owned by
>> another user, even if the linux permissions
>> allow them ( say even 777 ).
>> What is the circumvention of this problem ?
Are you sure that they can't _edit_ that file? It's possible they can
edit it (try with another program), but they can't remove it. If that's
the case, I would think the parent directory has the sticky bit set. (Is
the file in question in /tmp?) Here's the relevant portion from "man
chmod":
==
The name of the `sticky bit' derives from the original meaning:
keep program text on swap device. These days, when set for a directory,
it means that only the owner of the file and the owner of that
directory may remove the file from that directory. (This is commonly
used on directories like /tmp that have general write permission.)
==
jack
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Jack Challen
Technical Consultant, OCSL.
http://www.ocsl.co.uk/
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