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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SUID directories -- security concern?
Message-ID: <2996@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 7 Mar 90 20:26:55 GMT
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>Therefore by logical extension SUID on a directory should cause the
>newly created files to take on the UID of the directory!

Had Berkeley made that the behavior in 4.2BSD, it probably would have
ended up working that way.  I don't think they would have made that
behavior, though (they certainly didn't in *this* universe).