Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mstan!frank
From: frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Nasty Security Hole?
Message-ID: <118@hudson.Morgan.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 88 16:30:43 GMT
References: <175@ernie.NECAM.COM> <189@wyn386.UUCP> <8910@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner)
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In article <8910@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
} [...]
}Inode permissions apply to the contents of the inode, not to
}links to it (which are contained in other inodes).
} [...]

Perhaps I've failed to understand what you wrote.  I've always thought that
non-symbolic links were directory entries pointing to the *same* inode, and
that any permissions (read, write, and execute of the underlying object)
were shared by all links.


-- 
						Frank

"Computers are mistake amplifiers."