Re: Permissions on /root/
On 8 Mar 2003 at 17:40, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> At 13:02 Uhr +0200 08.03.2003, Birzan George Cristian wrote:
> - You should also be aware that a 0700 directory does not protect you
> if you are moving another directory from outside to inside, since
> users who have already chdir'd into it remain inside it. (Example:
> root: anybody:
> chmod 0700 /root
> # root feels safe
> mkdir /blah
> chdir /blah
> mv /blah /root
> # root thinks "ok now blah is safe"
> cd /root/blah
> cat > info
> (enter sensitive info, Ctl-D)
> cat info
> (looks at info)
why is he allowed to use "mv /blah /root"? /root is write-protected
so why could he move blah inside of it?
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