[Gllug] [OT ?] Filesystem ACLs

[Ashley Evans]

David Irvine wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 12:31, Ashley Evans wrote:
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>>Some admins in the office wanted to setup a "modify but not delete" sort 
>>of setup on a client's server.
>>
>>My thoughts are that this is an utterly stupid thing to do because if 
>>you can modify the file then it's possible to delete the data by opening 
>>the file.
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>>
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>You could use chattr +a on the file, if you just want to append it,
>useful for logfiles.
>
>David
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Thanks for the info all. Will more than likly settle for the classic "if 
you want your file, don't delete it" pragma :)

Ashley
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