[RndTbl] non-deletable directory but writable inside the directory
Gilbert E. Detillieux
gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Tue Jun 30 10:43:23 CDT 2009
On 2009-06-30 09:22, Montana Quiring wrote:
> I'm updating my public machine image with Ubuntu 8.04
> I would like for the Desktop directory in the users home directory to be
> non-deletable but still allow the user to download files to that folder
> (the files in the Desktop folder get deleted on a reboot).
> Right now my work around is a script in the runtime directory that
> deletes all of the files in the Desktop directory and then recreates and
> chowns it (in case it's been deleted).
> Assigning the directory the immutable bit stops it from being deleted
> but also doesn't allow the user to write in that folder. :(
>
> I tried all the google results I could find, but couldn't find a working
> solution.
> Any suggestions?
How about putting an immutable file or subdirectory inside the Desktop
directory? Since the Desktop directory can never be emptied, it would
then become non-deletable itself, but could still be writable.
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Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca>
Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/
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