Re: GtkFileSelection security problem?

Well, isn't that weird. So, if a root-owned file is in a directory that user has access to, it will allow user to delete it? I didn't know that because I had never tried to do it. Thanks for the info. James Cameron wrote:

But this is not unusual. It's doing exactly what the operating system lets it do. The directory ownership counts for more. Example: host:~$ touch test-file host:~$ ls -l test-file

-rw-r--r--    1 user     user            0 Jun 10 13:46 test-file

host:~$ su Password: host:/home/user# chown root:root test-file host:/home/user# exit exit host:~$ ls -l test-file

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jun 10 13:46 test-file

host:~$ rm test-file rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `test-file'? y host:~$

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