Nasty Security Hole?

[Frank Wortner]

In article <8910 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
} [...]
}Inode permissions apply to the contents of the inode, not to
}links to it (which are contained in other inodes).
} [...]

Perhaps I've failed to understand what you wrote.  I've always thought that
non-symbolic links were directory entries pointing to the *same* inode, and
that any permissions (read, write, and execute of the underlying object)
were shared by all links.


-- 
						Frank

"Computers are mistake amplifiers."