Nasty Security Hole?

[Paul De Bra]

In article <189 at wyn386.UUCP> mikef at wyn386.UUCP (Mike Faber) writes:
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>I have wondered something about permissions security for a while, now, too.
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>Why can a person with read permission only be able to remove the file?...

The only  think you need to delete a file is write permission in the directory
containing the file. Permissions on the file have no effect whatsoever (except
maybe giving a warning from rm).

Paul.
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