Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> 
>> This is a head-scratcher for me. WHY is a user who should have no
>> permissions able to create/modify/delete files in this directory?
> 
> 
> One of my coworkers claims to have solved it, by finding overlapping
> GIDs in the local /etc/group files on the various systems involved.

Hmmm, would there be a way to check for that with some kind of
consistency-check script? Seems like it might even be a security issue, eh?

> 
> I'd swear I checked for that, though.

Easy for computers, difficult for humans?

> 
> Hooray, inheriting other people's messes.

Regards,
..jim


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