Bug 6246 - 'mv' doesn't care about permissions
Summary: 'mv' doesn't care about permissions
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: fileutils
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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Reported: 1999-10-22 15:13 UTC by kaje
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-02-17 19:21:49 UTC
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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).
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