on 2-19-2009 1:31 PM Tim Nelson spake the following:
----- "MHR" mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, nate centos-T6AQWPvKiI1cRAk/VAjCeQ@public.gmane.org wrote:
Tim Nelson wrote:
I've been around and around on this topic and I'm just hoping
someone can
give me a little sanity by confirming 'yay or nay' whether this is
possible
or not.
It may be possible to prevent them from deleting a file, but if
they
have write access it wouldn't be possible from effectively deleting the file by wiping it's contents(truncating it).
However, file creation and deletion are functions of the directory permissions where the file resides. If a directory allows a user to write to it, they can create and delete files in that directory with reckless abandon.
There are probably some intricate ways around this particular problem, but they can get pretty complicated really fast.
HTH.
mhr
I've been trying to devise a way around this problem and as you mentioned, it gets extremely complicated quickly. It's even more complicated than allowing users to delete files and restoring the file from a backup set. Well, at least I don't feel I'm going insane anymore (for now...).
Thank you to all who responded.
--Tim
I have enabled the recycle bin vfs object on my systems. That way a user has to really try and delete a file to make it go away. Like windows, they would have to delete it, go look in the recycle bin (that you can hide) and delete it again. It has saved me many hours of recovering stuff.