Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is this supposed to happen!!!!!!

--- abhilash kumar linuxwarrier@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Hi all,

Consider a file with read-only permissions for all that is r--r--r-- is a directory with permissions of 777. The owner of the file is say a user "abc".

1.Any other user say "xyz" can write to this file after opening it with vi using a forced write(wq!). 2.After the forced write "xyz" becomes the owner of the file.

Is this xyz user called "root" by any chance ?

Or maybe you have a modified version of vi, that changes permissions..

Can't think of anything else, though..

                                Abhilash

-- Sriram

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