Permissive Permissions

[John H Merritt]

In article <8905101550.AA02500 at lerc08.nas.nasa.gov> fsfacca at LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) writes:
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>>>     I fail to see what the problem is?  / has world-writable, so what?!
>>> I would be concerned if it didn't.
>

Try:
     cd /
     rm unix

You can erase unix! -- That would make me mad, how about you?
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|John H. Merritt                   |  Yesterday I knew nothing,  |
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