Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:44:26 -0400 From: Klaus Steden <klaus@compt.com> To: James Pione <jpione@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: write permissions w/out rm capability? Message-ID: <20010712174426.I73359@cthulu.compt.com> In-Reply-To: <200107122132.OAA27338@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>; from jpione@earthlink.net on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:37:52PM -0400 References: <200107122132.OAA27338@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
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> Hi Everyone. > I'm running a FreeBSD 4.2 server, with netatalk so > it can print and file serve to a lab of old macs. The FBSD server only has > one > account for users to put files in, so that they can put those files into > their main accounts on the main server later on. I'm looking for some > way to set the permissions or something to let users write files to the > home directory of the account, but not be able to edit or delete those > files. Thanks in advance for people's ideas and suggestions. > Read the manual page for 'chflags(1)'; there a number of flags you can set on files to set them immutable, append-only, etc. The only drawback of this scenario is that you have to run at a kernel security level of >= 1 (iirc), which can be a pain for some administrative tasks. Klaus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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