> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, [ISO-8859-2] Paweł Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > > Simple example why I think that only owner should have permission to create > > hardlinks to his files. ... > I see you forgot to 'ls -l' the resultant link ... you'll find that it has > the same permissions and ownership as the original file. Oops.
You misunderstand the original poster's complaint. The issue is that a non-owner can cause the owner's file to remain alive even after the owner has deleted it. Hence the comment about "later breakin". You could also use this technique to maliciously exhaust a user's quota, by linking to their temporary files. I'm not sure what the standards have to say about this, but I don't much like the current behaviour. -- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
