X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_ADVERT2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BDA0D85.9060702@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:51:49 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, melkor@orangpalantir.org Subject: Re: Ignored Permissions References: <4BD8797E.8020200@alumni.caltech.edu> <4BD889A0.3090902@bopp.net> <20100429075809.GS1845@calimero.vinschen.de> <1272581272.1671.12.camel@erebor> In-Reply-To: <1272581272.1671.12.camel@erebor> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig3F63C902ADC08DB3F66B0182" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com --------------enig3F63C902ADC08DB3F66B0182 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04/29/2010 04:47 PM, Matthew B. Smith wrote: > If I set the permissions of a file to be read only I can still delete > it, or modify it w/out warning. > This is an administrator acct if that affects the issue. I am using 1.7 Yes, that makes a difference. I bet if you became root on your Ubuntu system, and did the same test, you'd notice the same behavior. In other words, running as admin does give you additional permissions above and beyond those implied by the mode bits. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig3F63C902ADC08DB3F66B0182 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJL2g2FAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqeYYH+wUZuXn6dnnOryDVQTuFtKLU 6Ediwr2zb1+nbEYkdAtd/TK169cTlgXQ4aR4ze79JyMyVZY8y1ByvzWf5NWIyizD 0S62a8jVqI9vjM77mfwLdVt3EPKKMS9C3+Pt/FuktqcbzpEDo2cqsyMPmjbDlitm M5NFLxSMY26m/FzB7X+oSX18T9kVpclQI/3kIgN69r3vkRuuWczkwQhYTSmKYD4b zrYE6iZBD/ThNWZCAebVxmHmITvzahcgOYWo7Ez4GZGXyzqJ3z/A/4gSjf4FceaO K2YgGzB5FeNvO46q3lW/CSJ7RhzD2pC9MVeGRX/FWYvdAKDWzRvJ1Ux6906fjXw= =W5zN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig3F63C902ADC08DB3F66B0182--