Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

manoj wrote: > Safe or not, it is UNIX ;-). Deleting a file is not actually > modifying the file, you are really modifying the directory the files > reside in. So, if you have write permissions to a directory, you may > delete any other file that is in there, as you observed. This can't >

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

Hi, >>"G" == G Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> So obviously although I hadn;t realised that before if a group you G> belong to owns a directory which is writable by the group you can G> delete stuff from it without owning the files and without G> belonging to the group which owns the

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: > I noticed this on my one remaining bo machine. Hamm seems to have > taken care of this bug. > > G. Kapetanios wrote: > > > > Following to my previous email I have to say some things. > > > > the /boot directory in my machine is > > > > drwxrwsr-x

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Following to my previous email I have to say some things. > > the /boot directory in my machine is > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot > the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was > deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0)

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

George, I noticed this on my one remaining bo machine. Hamm seems to have taken care of this bug. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Following to my previous email I have to say some things. > > the /boot directory in my machine is > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk

user can delete kernel images (cont)

Following to my previous email I have to say some things. the /boot directory in my machine is drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0) does not belong to the disk group i