Hi!

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:49:14AM -0500, David T-G wrote
> As a normal user, you shouldn't be able to remove a privileged
> mutt_dotlock, since it will be owned by root; the only way for that
> to happen is if it was world-writable anyway.  If you can remove it,

Or the directory is writable.

There are systems where special users are allowed to update software
in /usr/local without having permissions to do setuid changes.

Shade and sweet water!

        Stephan

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