file permissions - quite strange

[rotary3]

i admit to being new to linux and all, but i was just playing around with it, and the terminal. I created a test folder with a variety of files inside, stored in my home directory. Then changed the chmod setting to 000 for all files (which i believe means no read, write or execute). Fine, that works. I can't open the files, copy or move them, but somehow I can easily delete these files just by pressing the delete key on my keyboard. Does anybody know what's going on here? I'm on ubuntu 9.04.

[b2bwild]

That wont happen, Im using ubuntu 9.04. didnt faced such bug.
but make sure. that you are not running nautilus with root privilages (X_X less possibilty)
and permissions are changed correctly to 000

[rotary3]

That wont happen, Im using ubuntu 9.04. didnt faced such bug.
but make sure. that you are not running nautilus with root privilages (X_X less possibilty)
and permissions are changed correctly to 000

but it did happen!
Sorry, i'm not sure what nautilus is, but the permissions were definitely set to 000. i checked with "ls -l".

[b2bwild]

Nautilus is your file browser, can you remove file with rm command?

[rotary3]

Nautilus is your file browser, can you remove file with rm command?

Yes I can, but when I use the rm command through the terminal, it gives a message saying asking if i'm sure i want to delete the read only file. If I type Yes then it deletes. When deleting directly from the file browser I don't even get a confirmation.

[b2bwild]

You can delete or move files (nautilus will move file to trash on delete) when you have write permission on directory of file.
e.g.

/home/popo/Main
(You have full access to folder Main)
~/Main/Sub
(You have no permission for directory Sub)

In this case you can delete/move/rename contents of Main, but not Sub.

[rotary3]

I see. Thanks for clearing that up mate.