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How do I make a file NOT modifiable?
While logged in, I can do the following:
mkdir foo
touch foo/bar
chmod 400 foo/bar
chmod 500 foo
Then I can open vim (not as root), edit bar, force a write with w!, and the file is modified!
How ...
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Why can rm remove read-only files?
If I create a file and then change its permissions to 444 (read-only), how come rm can remove it?
If I do this:
echo test > test.txt
chmod 444 test.txt
rm test.txt
...rm will ask if I want to ...
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Tar overwrites read only files
I created directory test, created file 1.txt in test, wrote 'Before' in this file.
Then I went
cd ..
and used the command:
tar -cvzf ./test.tgz ./test
Then I entered the test dir again. Opened ...
