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From: grant@bluemoon.UUCP (Grant DeLorean)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: permissions in home directory
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Date: 17 Jan 91 17:16:37 GMT
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dejesus@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Francisco X DeJesus) writes:

>owned by root, group root, and read-only (permission: -r--r--r--). The
>problem is that even with this setup the guest can delete them! What did
>I miss?

 That the guest account owns the directory so can do what it wants in
that directory...
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 Grant DeLorean  (grant@bluemoon)    {n8emr|nstar}!bluemoon!grant