Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:26:49 -0500 | From | Fuzzy Fox <> | Subject | Re: buglet in ext2 sticky bit? |
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Frank van Maarseveen <F.vanMaarseveen@inter.NL.net> wrote: > > japetus /tmp ls -ld . aap > drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 1024 Oct 24 22:17 . > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 30 Oct 24 22:11 aap > > AFAIK a file writable for everyone should be deletable when +t on the > parent dir.
I disagree. A malicious user could remove the "aap" file, and then recreate it with permissions that disallow writes by others.
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