Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rm etc. (was: Nasty Security Hole?)
Message-ID: <480@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 18:55:27 GMT
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>A utility such as "rm" COULD perform extra checks based on the inode
>permissions.  In fact the 4.nBSD "rm" does this ("override permissions
>on xxx?") and it is EXTREMELY annoying.

So does the System V Release 3.1 one, and, if I remember correctly, so
did the V7 and perhaps even the V6 one; one can hardly flame Berkeley
for this one.