On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> 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