[plug] SAMBA on Fedora Core 4

[Craig Ringer]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 18:02 +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> >    - The filesystem permissions on /sharedir and /sharedir/fred.txt
> >      must permit bsmith to delete it.
> 
> (nit pick: The permissions on the file you're trying to delete are
> irrelevant.  It's only the directory permissions that you need to look
> at.  This is why, e.g. you can have a file owned by root in your home
> directory and still be able to delete it, but not be able to delete a
> file that you own in /usr/local/bin.)

In my defence, I *did* consider saying that but simplified it out.

Sub-nitpick: unless the sticky bit is set on the directory.

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Craig Ringer