Re: [CentOS] vsftpd: users can delete files they don't possess

Andy Green wrote on Tue, 16 May 2006 16:59:18 +0100:

This sounds like a Unix feature, not a bug. If the user has write rights to the directory, he can delete anything in the directory no matter who owns the file.

Oh, well, now that you say it I remember that remotely from "Unix school". I'd completely phased that out.

Is there a way to achieve different behavior without using acl extensions? My objective is that I want users *not* to be able to delete certain files/directories in their home directories. It seems I can achieve this partly by putting files in a directory they don't own. They then cannot delete the files in the directory and therefore cannot delete the directory. As soon as the directory is empty they can delete it.

Kai