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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: overriding permission bits
Keywords: permission bits
Message-ID: <432@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 89 16:17:07 GMT
References: <294@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <294@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller) writes:
>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 :-(


Yes, but were the messages actually deleted?

JB
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