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SubjectRe: SECURITY HOLE in namei.c ??
On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:

> > I may be wrong or have passed this theme, but how is it possible for a
> > user to delete Files and Dirs, for them he has no write permissions!!
>
> if the user owns the directory, that's legal. this is unix, not vms.

Said user could also be the 'superuser' - or this this special case
handled differently?


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