Hi, you might want to look into "chattr" i know you can set a few options to make sure they can't modify or remove a file. check the manpage for chattr :) later charles On Tuesday 16 May 2006 12:57, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos