From: jwhub@sci.kun.nl (Jan Willem Hubbers) Subject: Re: Security problem: SLS/99.4/extfs Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 08:36:44 GMT
In <probreak.729079441@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> probreak@cis.ksu.edu (James M Chacon) writes:
>duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
>>I noticed something bizarre today:
>>Whenever a directory has 777 permision on it, anyone can remove any file in
>>that directory. I know this is not proper behavior. Does anyone know the
>>cure for it?
>Um, you ought to reread the stuff on file and directory permission again.
>777 means rw-rw-rw, which means the directory is writable by anyone. That
rwxrwxrwx, maybe? :-)
>measn exactly what you found.
>James