RE: IMMUTABLE and APPEND-ONLY rationales

Linda Walsh (law@sgi.com)
Sat, 24 Jun 2000 13:41:29 -0700

> From: ak@suse.de [mailto:ak@suse.de]
> Even root cannot delete immutable and append-only files again. So if every
> user was allowed to do that he/she could create a lot of problems for root
> (like creating undeletable files in /tmp) 
---


Root is already privileged to set/unset those bits on any file regardless
of ownership.  It does not follow that this would change if users could
set those bits on their own files.  


I'm sorry, but I don't see that as a valid rationale.



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Linda A Walsh                    | Trust Technology, Core Linux, SGI
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