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. > nope. [pierce at xxxx test]$ grep pierce /etc/group postgres:x:26:pierce pierce:x:503: [pierce at xxxx test]$ touch x [pierce at xxxx test]$ ls -la total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 pierce pierce 4096 May 13 07:58 . drwxr-xr-x 37 pierce root 4096 May 13 07:57 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 pierce pierce 0 May 13 07:58 x [pierce at xxxx test]$ chgrp postgres x chgrp: changing group of `x': Operation not permitted