Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 07:27:17PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
>Argh, egg on face: linux lets the owner of a file modify it even if it
>is mode 444 and in a directory they do not own. Yuck! Is this standard
>unix semantics? It sucks.
Standard Unix semantics prevents non-root users from writing to files
they own with u-w.
They don't prevent the user from changing that mode of course. I
believe that vim magically does this for you on :w! (it temporarily
adds the 0200 bit).
Regards,
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