Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: File Access - Does Owner Access Override Group Access?
Message-ID: <10909@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 May 88 15:39:55 GMT
References: <1268@kodak.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  On most systems you can delete anything if you own the directory in
which it resides. The ownership and permissions are not checked, I can
remove a file owned by root with 000 mode.

  This may not be true on all systems.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me