Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner

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Subject: Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner
From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:27:17 -0800
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20010205192407.L21552@kitenet.net>; from joeyh@debian.org on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 07:24:07PM -0800
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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.

-- 
see shy jo

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