[Samba] Fw: share a folder rw, but not deletable?

Peter Carpenter peterc at osm.co.uk
Wed Mar 26 10:20:12 GMT 2003


On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Brian Wiese wrote:

> Is there a way in UNIX to make a folder with read+write permissions for
> some group of users, but only allow them to read and write to the
> folder... not actually delete the folder itself?

In Unix the permissions ("perms") of the _parent_ directory determine who
can remove a sub-directory (= folder in Windows). So you can set the perms
on a given directory wide open but restrict write access to its parent.
Maybe this is all you need?

PCC


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