On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Robert Spangler <mlists at zoominternet.net> wrote: > On Saturday 10 March 2012 13:45, the following was written: > > Thnx everyone. I was under the impression that even though you had access to > the directory you still could not touch a file that you were not part of the > owner or group unless the bits were set. You can't affect the contents of the file, but the name is a directory entry which is a separate thing. Note that with hard links you can have multiple names that might be in different directories pointing to the same contents. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com