Hi
I've encountered a weird situation where I can't delete a file: (reproductile on rh9 and fc3, no selinux)
$ id uid=500(marius) gid=500(marius) groups=500(marius)
mkdir d1
d1/a.txt
chmod 571 d1 chmod 460 d1/* ls -al d1/ total 12 dr-xrwx--x 2 marius marius 4096 Dec 8 15:01 . drwxrwxrwt 17 root root 4096 Dec 8 15:01 .. -r--rw---- 1 marius marius 0 Dec 8 15:01 a.txt
rm d1/a.txt rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `d1/a.txt'? y rm: cannot remove `d1/a.txt': Permission denied
The directory d2 has write permissions for my group, and file it's writable by group. I belong to that group, why can't the file be removed?
The directory d2 also has permissions that say that user "marius" does not have write permission. Generally, user permissions overrule group permissions, which overrule other permissions. Try setting the permissions of d2 to 771 instead of 571. You should then be able to remove a.txt even if it is permission 440 rather than 460.
Paul.
