From: Kristian Koehntopp (kris@black.toppoint.de)
Date: 02/08/93 

From: kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Subject: Re: Security problem: SLS/99.4/extfs
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 18:19:44 GMT

In <1993Feb7.053928.10463@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
>Change the permissions to 755 (or what ever you want) -- This fact
>is NOT specific to linux, it is to unix in general. The whole idea

In fact better change permissions to 1777 (i.e. set the sticky
bit). This won't break the public writeability of the
directory. Files can only be deleted by their owner (or root)
in a directory with the sticky bit set.

Kristian 

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