[SLUG] Linux Permissions

[Jonathan Worthington]

"Stephen O'Neill" <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> That was it :D
>
> I think that the ACLs are a little different to Windows in that respect.
>
I find it helpful to think of it like this:  Everything on UNIX is a file. 
Thus a directory is a file (that just contains a list of files in the 
directory, conceptually).  So if you want to delete a directory or file A 
that is in a directory B, then you're modifying the list of files that make 
up directory B, so you need permissions on B.

Oh, and s/UNIX/Linux/.  :-)

Hope that makes sense,

Jonathan