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From: wayne@ledgepc.uucp (Wayne Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Unable to remove directories in V1.5
Message-ID: <118@ledgepc.uucp>
Date: 8 Mar 91 19:12:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.105044@mobius.Viewlogic.COM>
Organization: Weyerhaeuser Paper Co., Columbus, MS USA
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From article <1991Mar6.105044@mobius.Viewlogic.COM>, by greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin):
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a fairly bizarre problem with V1.5: I cannot remove any 
> directory that I create! This can be duplicated if I am user "root"
> or user "ast".  "root" cannot remove directories with 777 protection!
> My umask for "root" is 0000.  The umask for "ast" is "0022".

< stuff deleted >

It sounds like rmdir has its setuid bit set and is owned by someone other
than root (probably bin).  This would prevent you from removing anything
not owned by the owner of rmdir. (And since "rm -r" actually execs rmdir,
that wouldn't work either.)  Try using chmod u-s /usr/bin/rmdir and see
if the problem goes away.

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