removing write permission does not prevent root from writing to the file
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Mar 15, 202635644 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I just noticed on my Ubuntu machine (ext3 filesystem) that removing write permissions from a file does not keep root from writing to it. Is this a general rule of UNIX file permissions? Or specific to Ubuntu? Or a misconfiguration on my machine? Writing to the file fails (as expected) if I do this …
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Fix for: removing write permission does not prevent root from writing to the file
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1) This is a normal behaviour. root has rw access on all files at all times. 2) You can protect a file even from root (not deliberate action, but accidental, anyway) by using That is "change attributes add immutable". To remove the protection: have …
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