[CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Tue May 12 22:50:38 UTC 2009


nate wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
> 
>> But if you only have read access to the original file, can you overwrite it?
> 
> If you have write access to the directory yes you should be able
> to, if you only have read access to the directory I would expect
> not.

Technically, that's not overwriting.  That's removing the original and
replacing it with another file with the same name.  That difference
would be significant if there where other hard links to the original
file.

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