From: probreak@cis.ksu.edu (James M Chacon) Subject: Re: Security problem: SLS/99.4/extfs Date: 17 Feb 1993 10:01:20 GMT
jbii@HDFS1.acd.com ( John O. Bell II ) writes:
>In article <probreak.729079441@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> probreak@cis.ksu.edu (James M Chacon) writes:
>>
>>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.
>Looks like you could use a little manual reading yourself, James >:-).
>P.S. I just _love_ it when people tell somebody to RTFM, then proceed to
> give the wrong answer to the question. Sheesh...
No, I just need to stop posting right after I get up, the brain still seems
to be asleep at times :-)
James