Re: [TCLUG:15890] File Permission Errors

[Karl Morgan <ksm@dogbrain.com>]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Jonathan Kline wrote:

> Hey All:
> 	Okay I have some directories(Home Directories), That Have a FIle
> in them called .rhosts  The file is owned root.root, and is readable only
> by root, When you try to delete it you get rm: unable to link
> /home/user/.rhosts : Operation Not Permitted.
> 	Does anyone know how to delete this file?  Even as root it refuses
> to delete, also it refuses to accept a permissions change!!!!
> 	Any1 have any Ideas?  The OS is Mandrake 6.1 w/ Kernel 2.3.8.

Might possibly be immutable. As root use chattr -i /home/user/.rhost
first, and then attempt to delete it with rm.

Regards

					- Karl