[ILUG] chattr on directories

[Conor Daly]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 01:05:31PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Niall O Broin thought:
> I have some directories whose permissions I would like to set in  
> stone. The root directories are owned by root, and the perms are 701,  
> so they're not exactly permissive, but nonetheless I would like root  
> to not be able to change them with a simple chmod, really to provide  
> an additional level of comfort for a particular use.
> 
> I though chattr +i would be my friend but it is not and I suspect  
> this is because I'd need to chattr the containing directory, or even  
> the root.
> 
> Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Is what I want possible?

Um, would this be the sort of thing selinux would be good at?

Conor (who's still afraid of selinux...)
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