On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Till Maas <opensource(a)till.name> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:45:26PM -0500, Mike McLean wrote:
> Furthermore, when the user is root, the 0555 mode will not prevent
> writing as it would for normal users.
It does not matter, whether the user is root, but whether he has the
dac_override capability. If you read the original mail (1st paragraph)
again with this in mind, you will understand the reason for the change.
Does a lack of the dac_override capability prevent root from chmod'ing
its own files?
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Garrett Holmstrom