mairving — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:44:15 +0000

mohd wrote: im curious.. but if i chmod it to that.. wil i be able to unchmod it to 644?

Yes, you will.

mohd — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:25:38 +0000

im curious.. but if i chmod it to that.. wil i be able to unchmod it to 644?

druagord — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:27:22 +0000

chmod 440 .htaccess

but even that will let you change the permission back the only way would be to give ownership to somebody else then you.
by the way could i ask why you would want to do that?

mohd — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:12:38 +0000

nonono! I got linux... but i want it so that i couldnt even change the permission on .htaccess in the public_html folder

druagord — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:30:44 +0000

nice to know about this i tested it MacOS X (wich derived from freeBSD) and it works.

mairving — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:02:23 +0000

It depends upon the server that you are running. If it is on FreeBSD, then you can set the file flag for it.
chflags uappnd filename (the file can be added to but not deleted)
chflags uunlnk filename (the file cannot be deleted)

Either root or the file owner can set these flags and remove them depending on which SecureLevel you are running.

druagord — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:34:35 +0000

to make any file undeletable remove write permission to it. If you can't use .htaccess it's because the server admin doesn't thrust you to use it's possibility he probably won't give you another way to use it.