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Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

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Le 13/05/2024 à 15:03, Richmond a écrit :
> Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> writes:
>
>> Le 13/05/2024 à 14:36, Richmond a écrit :
>>> I was experimenting, and found this works:
>>>
>>> sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello"
>>>
>>> It created a file owned by root. But I found I was able to remove it
>>> without being root even though group and world permissions were read
>>> only.
>>>
>>>
>> thats because sudo exceutes a xterm as root
>>
>> then this xterm executes a shell (as root) and this root shell does
>> the redirection.
> Yes, but why did it allow me to delete the file? I was not root
> then. Try it.
>
>
as said Dan Ritter : the owner of the directory can delete any file 
inside the directory.

(see a directory as a special file containing pairs (name,file place on 
the disk). Deleting a file is just removing the pair from the directory, 
thus it is editing the directory, not the file.

-- 
Erwan David

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Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-13 13:30 +0200
  Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2024-05-13 13:50 +0200
    Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-13 14:00 +0200
    Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2024-05-13 14:00 +0200
    Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-05-13 14:10 +0200
      Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-05-13 15:50 +0200
        Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-05-13 16:20 +0200
          Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2024-05-13 17:30 +0200
            Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2024-05-13 18:50 +0200
    Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-05-13 14:10 +0200
    Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-05-13 14:20 +0200
      Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2024-05-13 14:50 +0200
        Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2024-05-13 15:20 +0200
          Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2024-05-13 15:20 +0200
          Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-13 15:20 +0200
            Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-13 15:30 +0200
              Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2024-05-13 19:10 +0200
      Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-13 14:50 +0200
        Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-13 15:00 +0200
          Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2024-05-13 15:20 +0200
            Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-05-13 15:30 +0200
              Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2024-05-13 16:00 +0200
        Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-05-13 15:00 +0200
        Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-05-13 15:20 +0200
        Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2024-05-13 15:20 +0200
      Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2024-05-13 14:50 +0200
        Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-05-13 15:10 +0200
    Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-05-13 14:20 +0200
  Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-05-13 18:10 +0200
    Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-13 18:40 +0200
      Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-05-13 19:10 +0200
    Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-13 21:10 +0200
      Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2024-05-13 21:20 +0200
        Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-13 22:00 +0200
          Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2024-05-13 22:10 +0200

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