Bug 6246

Summary:	'mv' doesn't care about permissions
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	kaje
Component:	fileutils	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Description kaje 1999-10-22 15:13:58 UTC

The mv-command doesn't care that your files are
writeprotected (eg. mode 0444). You are allowed to mv a file
(any mode) onto a writeproted one (thus loosing it). The
rm-command doesn't (as expected) allow you to delete
writeprotected files without either a warning or the f-flag.
This bug was not in RH5.1 (fileutils-3.16-10) and pre. It
seems to have been introduced with v. 4 of fileutils as it
also was in RH6.0 (fileutils-4.0-1).

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-02-17 19:21:59 UTC

Fixed in 4.0-19 (rawhide).