hypothetical scenario question
Duston, Hal
hdusto01 at sprintspectrum.com
Wed Jun 26 20:50:23 CDT 2002
dattaway at attaway.net [mailto:dattaway at attaway.net] wrote:
> chattr +i
>
> strategically placed in selected configuration directories and or
> individual files, this one bit will prevent any change from
> occuring.
>
> Except if that person happens to be root. Here is what the
> immutable bit does from chattr's man page:
>
> A file with the `i' attribute cannot be modified: it can-
> not be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this
> file and no data can be written to the file. Only the
> superuser can set or clear this attribute.
Even root can't modify an immutable file.
(Without removing the attribute.)
Hal
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