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From: liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: mkdir plots (was: mkdir() and security hole)
Summary: obvious questions (?)
Message-ID: <2419@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 31 Dec 88 22:00:52 GMT
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Reply-To: liz@grian.UUCP (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
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Why does mkdir() make the directory with root ownership in the first
place?  Why can't it create the node as owned by the user calling mkdir
in the first place?

Other side of the question:  Why doesn't this hole appear when files
are created?  Or does it?!?
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		- Liz Allen-Mitchell	liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us
					ames!elroy!grian!liz
"God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." -- 1 John 1:5b