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From: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Floppy Boot, Filesystem, and Diags (was Re: 3.5" floppy disk revisited)
Message-ID: <180@gnosys.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 89 23:47:28 GMT
References: <777@jonlab.UUCP> <678@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
Organization: gst's 3B1 - Somerville, Massachusetts
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In article <678@mitisft.Convergent.COM> dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:
> I don't think I would want /bin/mv as setuid root on my system.
> Kind of eliminates permissions on a directory.

Not really.  Merely having a program setuid does not imply that it is not
subject to the ordinary permissions-checking.  Depends on how it's written.
Judging from its behavior, "mv" is well-behaved to the extent of not over-
riding permissions checking on directories, even though it has the capability.
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