OK I understand why you can overwrite a file but on the reverse side of the coin. How would an admin write a file to your home directory that the user could not change or overwrite. As a user one would need write privy's for there home directory.
Ta Ta On Friday 26 October 2001 12:45, you wrote: > Le Vendredi 26 Octobre 2001 20:19, vous avez écrit : > > I've not tried this on non-Mandrake boxes, but I think it may be a > > problem with linux in general not just Mandrake. > > > > As root > > > > touch /home/user/test1;chmod 600 /home/user/test1 > > touch /home/user/test2;chmod 600 /home/user/test2 > > > > As user > > > > mv test1 test3 > > mv test2 test3 > > > > Both succeed with no trouble (the 2nd one will ask if you want to > > override the mode 600). mv basically does a cp and a rm doesn't it (I > > didn't look at the source, just guessing) and you shouldn't be able to > > rm a file you don't have permission to write on. > > > > You can mv the files anywhere in your home dir you have write > > permissions, but you can't seem to move to say /tmp It would seem that > > if an admin put a specific file in your home dir that they didn't want > > you to modify, you could either move it or even replace it with this > > setup. I'll admit this would be a little odd, but still a bug. > > > > Since I'm not sure who to report this too, someone please let me know. > > > > Julia > > not a bug! > > if you use umask 022 on /home, /home/user is 755 user user > so, user can modify/erase all files in its $HOME. > directory's permissions have prior on the files permissions.... > if root wants to put a file in /home/user that he doesn't want user to > modify, he has to put it in a specific dir which he is the owner. > > try this as root: > cd /home/user > mkdir test > # test must be 755 root root > cd test > touch test1 > touch test2 > > now try as user to mv or rm test1 and test2 in /home/user/test..... > > bye > jipe ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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