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Can you delete a file in linux without having nor permission or root access?

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please elaborate. which folder? you can delete any files without permission in your /home/user/ folder and /tmp/ folder, other than that, big NO. – nickanor Jan 3 at 17:34
what about /opt folder? – yassine Jan 3 at 17:35
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again, big NO to other folders – nickanor Jan 3 at 17:39
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You can delete any files without permission in your /home/user/ folder and in /tmp/ folder you can delete some files that aren't owned by root, other than that, big NO.

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You cannot delete files that you don't own from /tmp. Only root has that privilege. Why? Because the folder /tmp has the restricted deletion flag set. ls -dl /tmp gives drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 4096 Jan 3 18:05 /tmp The t in drwxrwxrwxt shows this. – Paddy Landau Jan 3 at 18:10
yep, i just check that, thanks. i'll update the answer. – nickanor Jan 3 at 18:42
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To delete a file ,permissions on files have no importance.To delete a file you should have proper permission (write permission) on directory that is housing it.

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