Giving rm root privilege for a particular directory

[imranka]

I want to give root privilege to the command rm for only a directory Dir inside /local/home. How I can do that?

[TheBoogyMaster]

Linux permissions

and why do you want to do that ?

[imranka]

To prevent anybody from deleting anything from that folder. Only root should have the ability to do that.

I'm sorry, but the link you've given doesn't help me BTW.

[vickey_20]

I suppose that you want to make a directory undeleteable . Why not simply change the permission on that so that only the one who created that particular directory can only delete it.

chmod o+rwx directory/

this will only grant the owner of the directory to have complete control on the directory. Hope this helps you.

[coopstah13]

as long as the owner of the directory is root, all you need is to make sure that only owner has write access, above command would set that to be true, to make sure root owns it, just run

chown -R root:root /local/home

[vickey_20]

I have a doubt , If the directory is owned by root then normal user will not have acces to it unless granted by the root.

[coopstah13]

if you use

chmod -R 744 /local/home

it will be readable by anyone, but only writeable by root

[imranka]

No here's the catch.

If i give rwx to only root, then a normal user can't even move a file from or to that directory, that I don't want to restrict. I just want to restrict the deletion of file, that's all.

[vickey_20]

then try this
chmod a+rx directory
this will give every one a read and entering permission.

[coopstah13]

I'm not sure what you desire is possible without it being a samba share. You can't specify that a directory can only have something created and not deleted. I don't get what difference is between deleting a file and moving a file from the directory, they are the same, except moving has a destination. If it was a samba share, you could specify that the directory was world writeable, and all files created in it could have a specific mask that would not allow them to be modified or deleted once added, this is about as close as you can get to what you want I believe.