Permission issue assistance

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 02:06:37PM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> I am trying to write a script that should delete a file as a verification
> flag. I do not want to run the scrip as root and that is why I am getting in
> trouble.
> 
> 
> The file is created by the script and owned by the user bin. The group owner
> is nobody. The file permission is rw rw rw for user group and others.
> 
> Now considering that everybody have write permission - do you need execute
> permission to delete a file? -, why am I get permission error when deleting
> this file? while running the script as user william?  What am I missing
> here? Any assistance would be welcomed.

You probably just need write permission to the directory to delete
a file.  Write permission to a file simply permits changing the contents
of the file.

What error do you get?  What permissions does the directory with the
file have?

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