Re: IMMUTABLE and APPEND-ONLY rationales

[David Ford]

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I freeze files all the time as evidence when I need to keep the machine up
and running.

I do agree on the other hand that these operations shouldn't be priv only.

-d

Linda Walsh wrote:

> I could see a reason to deny IMMUTABLE to a user -- root might want to
> freeze a user file as 'evidence' of something, but that is a stretch.
>
> Other than that, why was setting IMMUTABLE and APPEND-ONLY made to be a
> privileged operation?  I could see end users wanting to protect certain
> files with those modes.  Also, APPEND-ONLY seems a bit of a misnomer
> as a file with APPEND-ONLY can still be readable as well.
>
> Just wondering about the rationale for things being the way they are...?

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