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From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: overriding permission bits
Keywords: permission bits
Message-ID: <294@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 89 01:46:47 GMT
Reply-To: phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller)
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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I accessed a file with elm -f /a/b where the file b had its permission bits
set at 644 and I was not the owner (nor the group). elm allowed me to
delete mail messages contained within that file :-(

Running SUN/OS 4.0.

any ideas?