Re: truncate tool - must be root?

From: Wesley Shields <wxs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:30:17 -0500

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:59:11AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:

Is it expected that truncate(8) must be used by a superuser? If so,
then the man page should probably mention it. If not, then it's broken :)

Eric

I can use truncate on files I own without a problem. Who owns the
files? A quick experiment indicates that even setting a file to mode
647 when owned by root:wheel doesn't allow it to be operated on by
anyone other than root when using truncate.

-- WXS
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