Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Rick Friedman <rickfriedman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fascinating. I just followed your instructions below and... sure
enough... the same thing happened. It DOES indeed overwrite and change
ownership of the pre-existing file!

That does not make me happy!

Rick

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 15:16, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Ok let me clearify exactly what to do to see this "anomaly"
> 
> In your home directory, as you (markh) create a file.
> 
> touch /home/markh/xx
> 
> then:
> ls -al /home/markh/xx
> -rw-r--r--    1 markh    users      0 2003-08-27 12:23 /home/markh/xx
> Ok the file is owned by me...
> 
> then as root:
> chown root /home/markh/xx
> chgrp root /home/markh/xx
> then ^d to leave root
> 
> then
> ls -al /home/markh/xx
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       0 2003-08-27 12:23 /home/markh/xx
> 
> Ok the file is now owned by root no?
> 
> Now as user (markh) use vi to edit the file.
> enter some text and write it back. You will have to use :w! command. 
> The write should fail but does not.
> 
> The file is now owned by markh again.
> 
> ls -al /home/markh/xx
> -rw-r--r--    1 markh    users          22 2003-08-27 15:12
> /home/markh/xx