From: Matthew Rhoten (mrhoten@Xenon.Stanford.EDU)
Date: 02/07/93 

From: mrhoten@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Rhoten)
Subject: Re: Security problem: SLS/99.4/extfs
Date:  7 Feb 1993 07:01:10 GMT

duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:

>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?

Sure. Set the directory sticky. (mode bit 1000.)

 -matt 

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