Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Tuesday 2005-02-01 at 08:11 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> > Did anybody try setting the sticky bit?
> 
> That doesn't seem likely to help. Presumably "/dev" is owned by and only 
> writable by root, so making it sticky isn't going to have any real 
> effect. Root was the only user that could have removed an entry there 
> and will still be able to even if the directory is marked sticky.

Probably, yes. Although I was thinking of the file, not the directory. I'm
just hopping - I have never tried - that a "delete file" operation
complains about the sticky bit having to be removed first. As I say, I
don't know if that is the case, I'm just hoping.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson