[RndTbl] non-deletable directory but writable inside the directory

[Montana Quiring]

ohhh... good idea! thanks.
I would still want to empty out the Desktop directory every reboot. I'm
wondering if the *rm* command would delete everything but the immutable file
or just stop and error out. I'll have to test.

-MQ

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux <
gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

> 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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