From: probreak@cis.ksu.edu (James M Chacon) Subject: Re: Security problem: SLS/99.4/extfs Date: 7 Feb 1993 10:02:14 GMT
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
measn exactly what you found.
James