[Bug 788468] Re: rm manages to remove files owned by root without sudo

[Marc Deslauriers]

This is expected behaviour. If you have write permissions for the
directory, you can delete any file inside, whether it's owned by root or
not.


** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  rm manages to remove files owned by root without sudo

Status in “sudo” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  To reproduce:

  volodya at gnome:~$ sudo touch bla
  volodya at gnome:~$ ls -l bla
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-05-26 08:17 bla
  volodya at gnome:~$ rm bla
  rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `bla'? y
  volodya at gnome:~$ ls -l bla
  ls: cannot access bla: No such file or directory

  What i expect to see:
  rm command should not be able to remove files which are owned by root without root login

  Note:
  I have tried to remove from /bin/ directory, and i do see that there it generates an error
  volodya at gnome:/bin$ rm more
  rm: remove write-protected regular file `more'? y
  rm: cannot remove `more': Permission denied
  However, this is insufficient. Root owned files within home directory should also be protected from deletion.

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