Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: sys_chown() hits symlinks | Date | 18 Jan 1998 11:59:35 GMT |
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Followup to: <199801180812.AAA12870@sun4.apsoft.com> By author: Perry Harrington <pedward@sun4.apsoft.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Sounds like ther kernel is begging for a lsys_chown. I would speculate it > is so that any joe user can nuke a symlink that he created, otherwise > wouldn't the root:root semantics be a limiting factor? I know that symlinks > are lrwxrwxrwx, it's neccessary to set the owner so any joe user can't just > nuke any symlink (I am aware that current directory owner/perms affect this). > Symlinks should not be at the mercy of the directory perms, files aren't. >
Incorrect. Neither the owner nor the mode of a symlink have any effects, whatsoever.
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