[olug] more chattr

Vincent vraffensberger at home.com
Sun Sep 17 05:38:18 UTC 2000


mesc wrote:
> 
> Ok so you'd only want  to chattr +i a file that you wouldn't mind a user to
> read and  write  but not delete .....correct?
> 
>             Gary Martin
> 
No.  A user could read an immutable file if they had that read
priveleges, but they couldn't write, change, append, delete or link to
the file.  I don't see why regular users would NEED to even read any log
files though, except for the boot and last logs.

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