On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 16:52 -0300, Igor Morgado wrote: > the problem with stick bit solution is that only root will be allowed > to change the file too. That is, if a new profile is released, user > will not be able to see the changes. I just tested out an idea, and there is a way to allow changes without allowing deletes, but it's very ugly (especially to do this to a user's $HOME) chmod $HOME to 1775 chown $HOME to root:username set umask to 0002 by default chown gconf to root:username chmod gconf to 664 The file can now be changed by the user, but cannot be deleted. But this is a REAL hack, so I'd definitely advise against it. And having a user not be the owner of their own $HOME is AWFUL. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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