rm etc. (was: Nasty Security Hole?)

Guy Harris guy at auspex.UUCP
Tue Nov 22 04:55:27 AEST 1988


>A utility such as "rm" COULD perform extra checks based on the inode
>permissions.  In fact the 4.nBSD "rm" does this ("override permissions
>on xxx?") and it is EXTREMELY annoying.

So does the System V Release 3.1 one, and, if I remember correctly, so
did the V7 and perhaps even the V6 one; one can hardly flame Berkeley
for this one.



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