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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#22185: Operation not permitted for `touch -d` on 777 file |
| Date: | Wed, 16 Dec 2015 12:59:52 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 |
Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro wrote:
If other users have full control over the file (and surrounding directory), shouldn't they be able to change its date?
Mode 777 does not mean full control; it merely means read, write, and execute access is granted to everybody. Other users still cannot chmod the file, for example; nor can they set the file's time stamps in arbitrary ways.
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