Worm/Passwords
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.UUCP
Wed Nov 30 04:24:44 AEST 1988
>Just make it so that if the sticky bit is set on the directory's mode,
>only the file's owner or root can unlink() it. BSD already does this,
4.3BSD, anyway. So does System V Release 3.2; both systems, as I
remember, also allow the owner of the *directory* to remove any entries
in it. I think there's one other case where S5R3.2 allows an entry to
be removed but 4.3BSD doesn't, but I can't remember what it is.
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