[Gllug] [OT ?] Filesystem ACLs

David Irvine maillist at glasgownet.com
Tue Aug 10 11:59:43 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 12:31, Ashley Evans wrote:
> 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.

You could use chattr +a on the file, if you just want to append it,
useful for logfiles.

David


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