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Re: Deleting users at the end of the year

Subject: Re: Deleting users at the end of the year
From: Simon Slavin <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:02:48 +0100

On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 03:09 pm, Jon L. Gardner wrote:

If root can't delete something, then it ain't root.

It could be considered a bug in the handling of HFS+ drives. In
fact I would submit it as a bug if the bug-submitting thing worked
for me.

OS X considers the attribute called 'locked' on HFS+ drives to be
more important than the override you normally get by being root.
Consequently, it won't let even root users delete a locked file
without unlocking it first.

It's fairly easy to write an AppleScript which will unlock a file
and then delete it.

Simon Slavin
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Simon Slavin Fylde College Room C42
Computing Development Officer 01524 65201 x 93569
Psychology Department
University of Lancaster
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