Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Varner wrote:

> 
> It is because of the directory permission.  Do an ls -ld /home/markh and I
> am sure that they are set to drwxr-xr-x or (755)  Since you own the
> directory and have write priviledges the editor is allowed to write the file
> and change the ownership.  If you create another directory with the
> permissions set to 555 (dr-xr-xr-x), the behavior will act like you are
> expecting.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul

 So in linux there is no way to have some files in "a" directory that
are writable and some files that are not? At least not without the use
of acls? This is really what need to achieve but didn't want the hassle
of learning acls or having to put acl support in my kernel. I'm not
using SuSE's kernel.

Regards
Mark