Permission issue assistance

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:45:37PM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> My directory permission are as follow:
> 
> drwxrwxrwt   67 root nagios 40960 Aug  8 22:41 tmp
> 
> The directory is owned by root and group nagios
> 
> The file has the following properties.
> 
> -rw-rw-rw-  1 nobody 4294967295 1 Aug  7 16:20 /tmp/.run_challenge_update
> 
> However, I run the script from an account called william

The t flag on /tmp means only the owner of a file can delete it.  So in this case only nobody and root can delete it.

> rm: cannot remove `/tmp/.run_challenge_update': Operation not permitted

That would be the correct behaviour in /tmp.  Only nobody should be able to delete it.  You would have to make both users part of a group and make the file have that group as owner to make it possible, or you would have to have a directory writeable by all (which is considered a very bad idea).

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Len Sorensen
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