>>There is precedent for this, for example in the Unix filesystem permissions: to be able to delete a file, you need write access to its parent directory; the p

>>There is precedent for this, for example in the Unix filesystem permissions: to be able to delete a file, you need write access to its parent directory; the permissions of the file itself are not taken into account. My mind has been blown. I can delete this .txt as the user "pikachu". I had no idea. pikachu@POKEMONGYM ~/tmp3/pikachuFolder $ ls -la total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 pikachu pikachu 4096 Jun 17 08:48 . drwxr-xr-x 3 pikachu pikachu 4096 Jun 17 08:48 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 17 08:48 gogogadgetarms.txt pikachu@POKEMONGYM ~/tmp3/pikachuFolder $ pikachu@POKEMONGYM ~/tmp3/pikachuFolder $ rm gogogadgetarms.txt rm: remove write-protected regular empty file ‘gogogadgetarms.txt’? y pikachu@POKEMONGYM ~/tmp3/pikachuFolder $ ls -la total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 pikachu pikachu 4096 Jun 17 08:52 . drwxr-xr-x 3 pikachu pikachu 4096 Jun 17 08:48 .. pikachu@POKEMONGYM ~/tmp3/pikachuFolder $