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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Locked File (even for root) FR2.0R ???
Date: 7 Feb 1995 02:29:35 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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In article <3guimq$1l8@mamnix.werries.de>,
Michael A. Meiszl <mam@werries.de> wrote:
>How it happened, who knows?
>But I managed to get a totally protected file by aborting a make install.
>/usr/lib/libc.so.2.0 was readable, but not removeable, renameable or
>writeable for anyone including root.

chflags noschg name-of-files-with-system-immutable-bit-set

-GAWollman

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