无法删除具有777权限的目录

Question

I have created a directory /var/dir as root and give permission like:

#chown -R kute:kute /var/dir
#ls-l /var/dir
#drwxrwxrwx  2 kute kute  4096 May 30 04:04 /var/dir

and then i login as kute and tried to delete the directory. but it shows like

rm: cannot remove `/var/dir': Permission denied

And I can't give write permission to parent directory to delete the file

Answer 1

That is because it is not a directory. Sorry, but that is a symbolic link as you can see when looking at the permissions. Whatever you did, you did not create that directory. And the permissions line you posted certainly is not complete. The inode the link points to is missing.