Stephan -- ...and then Stephan Seitz said... % % Hi!
Hello! % % 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. Hmmm... I suppose so... So who leaves /usr/local/bin writable by users? I guess we can't account for taste, though. % % There are systems where special users are allowed to update software % in /usr/local without having permissions to do setuid changes. Ah. Again, no accounting for taste in the case where the special user goes straight in and does a make without checking to see what will happen, even if that does mean some manual changing around. % % Shade and sweet water! % % Stephan % % -- % | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | % | WWW: http://fsing.fs.uni-sb.de/~stse/ | % | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.fs.uni-sb.de/~stse/pgp.html | HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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