Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner
On Feb 05, 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.
Even worse: IIRC the owner of a file can chmod it to his or her
heart's content, and this is standard Unix semantics. It could be
mode 000 for all Linux cares.
Chris
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