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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: bug in 4.2BSD uucp?
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Date: Sat, 21-Jan-84 23:07:51 EST
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Well, the code to do this is in "cntrl.c"; the routine which does it is
called "putinpub".  A look at the code that would call "putinpub" seems
to indicate that it does all its access checking before it even receives
the file.  It calls "chkpth" which checks what the USERFILE allows, and
calls "chkperm" which checks that the file and the containing directory are
both publicly writable (both these are in "chkpth.c").  So it looks like
the only way the program would stick things into PUBDIR is if the "xmv"
failed *but* the permissions at the time the transfer started were valid.
I suspect this isn't a bug, but either a feature or a misfeature (depending
on your point of view).

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy