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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rm etc. (was: Nasty Security Hole?)
Message-ID: <8956@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Nov 88 09:56:05 GMT
References: <175@ernie.NECAM.COM> <189@wyn386.UUCP> <8910@smoke.BRL.MIL> <118@hudson.Morgan.COM> <8941@smoke.BRL.MIL> <480@auspex.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <480@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
->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.

But I think it was Berkeley who decided to prompt with a completely
misleading question!  I've known others who disliked this.