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Re: [cobalt-users] rm: cannot unlink `.htaccess



On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Larry Smith wrote:
>
> There was a discussion here a few months back about how to prevent
> end-user/customers from removing files such as the .htaccess.  At that time
> we went through a long drawn out scernio ending up with the point that the
> only way to "prevent" someone from deleting something that is "in" their
> directory is the immutable attrib.
>

In which case the root user knows that to delete the file he must reset
the bit.

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