well the whole point of the first post was to control access to a file, without controlling the directory and thats what i am saying is not possible. unless the root owns the guests home directory, (as u pointed out) controlling individual files won't help. Also giving certain dirs write persmissions could not work under circumstances. e.g mozilla , one may want to give write perm to the guest so that mozilla can store temp. files. but one may not want the user to install mozilla ad-ons like skins, plug-ins etc. since mozilla stores all under.mozilla , u have a problem.
I would much rather have a HP/UX like ACL functionality on top of normal unix permissions. if my first post gave the impression that i was favouring windoze a thousand appologies
u can't lock files in unix unless u lock the directory containing those files.
remember u don't need write permission on a file to delete it.
all it takes is write permission on the directory containing the file.
so a user can very well delete the file and put a new one with his pref.
removing write permissions on the home directory would prevent some applications from running.
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well the whole point of the first post was to control access to a file, without controlling the .mozilla , u have a problem.
directory and thats what i am saying is not possible.
unless the root owns the guests home directory, (as u pointed out) controlling individual files
won't help.
Also giving certain dirs write persmissions could not work under circumstances.
e.g mozilla , one may want to give write perm to the guest so that mozilla can store temp. files.
but one may not want the user to install mozilla ad-ons like skins, plug-ins etc.
since mozilla stores all under
I would much rather have a HP/UX like ACL functionality on top of normal unix permissions.
if my first post gave the impression that i was favouring windoze a thousand appologies
u can't lock files in unix unless u lock the directory containing those files. remember u don't need write permission on a file to delete it. all it takes is write permission on the directory containing the file. so a user can very well delete the file and put a new one with his pref. removing write permissions on the home directory would prevent some applications from running.