change of owner and group owner of a file belongs to diff user ?
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change of owner and group owner of a file belongs to diff user ?
Can anyone explain ?
Hi,
(Red Hat Linux 7)
#mkdir /doc
#chmod 777 /doc
user1$ cd /doc
user1$ touch file1
{here the owner and group owner of the file is user1}
user2$ cd /doc
user2$ vim file1
{user2 is able to add content and save the file.}
1. After user2 edited the file1 with "vim" the owner of the file get changed why?
2. file1 was created my user1 and having 664 perm by default and user1 is the owner and groupowner of the file. How user2 was able to edit it with the file having only read perm for others ?
it depends on the permissions of the directory, not on the file itself (because the permissions on the file will rule the access to the content of the file, and the permissions on the dir will rule the access to the content of the dir, which are the entries, the filenames).
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change of owner and group owner of a file belongs to diff user ?
