On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:37:47PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>> Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>>> However, when a directory is protected, then the files inside it are
>>> protected as well.  

>> Not quite true.

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la ~/.mozilla/
> drwx------   3 tzafrir tzafrir  128 2005-11-26 16:24 .

> So .mozilla itself is not even group readable. So not even someone
> from my personal group can read any file there. Let alone modify it.

If your home is group-writable, that person can do:

 mv ~tzafrir/.mozilla ~tzafrir/.moozilla
 mkdir ~tzafrir/.mozilla

and start creating files in there.

-- 
Lionel

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