[scponly] .ssh

[Tony J. White]

> Would it not be sufficient for .ssh to be owned by root, and to deny
> group and other write permissions?

No, directory permissions over-ride the permissions of the files inside them
when it comes to deletion.
Example (as user tjw):
mkdir /home/tjw/test
sudo chown root:root /home/tjw/test
sudo chmod a-rxw /home/tjw/test
rmdir /home/tjw/test

However, if the file attribute 'immutable' is set with chattr, the file
cannot be deleted by anyone (even root) until the immutable bit is removed.

-Tony 
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