On Monday 14 March 2005 10:13 pm, Tim Green wrote:
Being able to remove write privilages is very important! Imagine if any user could write to any file they fancied ...
I was referring more to the read only file attribute rather than read only file permissions, I agree that file permissions are very important but when you have them I don't see the point in a separate read only flag (this is a windows complaint).
What I didn't understand is that the read only attribute when used from within Windows to a samba share adjusts the file permissions (on the Linux end) to emulate the read only behaviour in windows. So you can have a folder set up that you think you have rwx permissions for as a given user, but if one of the files you copy into it from within Windows has the read only file attribute set then you will not be able to modify that file (from within either Windows or non root Linux, because it will be set to r_x) until you reset the permissions (from within Linux) or uncheck the read only file attribute (from within Windows)