Re: deny deleting a file for users

From: Stephen Samuel (samuel_at_bcgreen.com)
Date: 06/04/03

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To: J Norfleet <jnorfleet@picusnet.com>

    An easier solution would be to simply create a hard link to the
    file... eg:
    ln /home/usr1/nsmail /home/nodel/nsmail

    You would then need an occasional cron job to manage files
    that had been reduced to a link count of one. (including
    recreating the link).

    If you want to get real creative, you could set up sendmail so that
    it checked for the existence of a user's nsmail file every time a
    message got delivered for them by creating a wrapper around the
    local delivery program.

    J Norfleet wrote:
    > On Friday 30 May 2003 7:31 pm, Brian Hatch wrote:
    >
    >>>I would like to know if there exist any way to deny deleting a file for a
    >>>user, but allow this user accessing, removing parts of this file or
    >>>append text?
    >>>
    >>>We have problems in our systems because some users delete theirs own
    >>>nsmail file without notice what they are doing. 

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