Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Nasty Security Hole?
Keywords: mail permissions security
Message-ID: <479@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 18:42:54 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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>Well, that depends which Unix you're running.  Ultrix sticky(8) reads:
>
>     A directory whose `sticky bit' is set becomes an append-only
>     directory, or, more accurately, a directory in which the
>     deletion of files is resrticted. ...
>Of course, that's just Ultrix....

Actually, it's 4.3BSD, and Ultrix, and SunOS 4.0 (and maybe some earlier
SunOS 3.x release), and possibly System V Release 3.2, and....