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Re: chown problem

Subject: Re: chown problem
From: Eric Hall <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:46:27 -0700

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:58:54AM -0400, Thomas Ingham wrote:
> Isn't deletion an x priv?
>
> I have some ftp users, and they can overwrite files, but not add new
> ones, so I guess I assume that creating new files and deleting old ones
> are x of the (-rw)-r--r- part.
>

Delete is a directory write permission (you're removing the
file's entry from the directory's list). Overwriting a file (in
place) is a write permission on that particular file.

-eric
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