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Re: apt-get and The_User



On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 04:33:00PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> I would consider the problem here to lie in the fact that any user can
> link a setuid file. (I was most surprised when I discovered this;
> I would have expected that I could not link a non-writable file that
> doesn't have my UID as owner; after all, I'm changing things in the
> file's inode (number of links).)

There's nothing privileged about the inode data structure generally; after
all, atime is in there as well.

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