Re: [Openxdsm-devel] Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix security extensions

[Juan J. Quintela]

>>>>> "hans" == Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi

hans> Suppose /a is permissions 700 and /b is 777, and you rename
hans> /a/foo to /b/foo, you have then changed the permissions required
hans> for accessing the file.  Permissions ARE path traversal
hans> dependent in Unix.  Inheritance of them should be also.

no, because the file can have multiple names ......

ln -s /a/foo /tmp/bar

and everybody can read the file with the name bar.  Permissions ARE
dependent on the inode (and only the inode in Unix.  Other thing is
how do you got to the inode number is a complete different history
IMHO.

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy
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