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Sticky bit basically says you can't remove a file from that directory 
unless you own it.

For example, under /tmp which has the following perms:

drwxrwxrwt   12 root     root         4096 Jan 17 17:45 /tmp

there is the following file:

-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root        98761 Jan 12 10:47 datetime.c

Note the permissions.  Now I try to remove it as a normal user:

rhws/tmp> rm datetime.c
rm: cannot remove `datetime.c': Operation not permitted

But, I can edit the file if the permissions indicate as such.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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