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From: ian@unipalm.uucp (Ian Phillipps)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: rm files over PC-NFS
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.145245.6906@unipalm.uucp>
Date: 1 Mar 91 14:52:45 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.214943.7206@mks.com>
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., Cambridge, England
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andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) writes:

>Is it possible for a user to remove read-only files over PC-NFS that are
>owned by someone else and are in a directory which is writable by this
>user?  I am having problems doing this even though I can do it directly
>on the NFS server.

If it did, it would conflict with DOS semantics, which don't have the
concept of writable directories, and have a single bit to protect against
deletion or writing.

Ian