On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:27:15 -0700 Marc Perkel <[email protected]> wrote: > There would be different rights to eack link. Well, color me confused. You appear to be saying that the permission on a file differ depending on which link you are accessing it by. Furthermore, your stance seems to imply that linking to a file grants either write permission or ownership on the new link. So, under this permission model, I could link to /etc/passwd in my home directory, edit the link to change my UID to zero, then relogin to the system as an administrator. Not that I would need to, of course, because any user who owns/could write to a directory would be able to alter any file on the entire system. I know they're called "permission" models, but that seems *extremely* permissive... -- -Julian Blake Kongslie <[email protected]>
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