ln weirdness

Gerald Britton (gbritton@whitman.gmu.edu)
Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:15:56 -0500 (EST)


as a normal user, the system lets me do this:

ln /etc/shadow /tmp/testfile

it then creates testfile as the same permissions and ownership of
/etc/shadow, thus i still cannot read it, but should it really be letting
me do this? Also, after i create the file, i cannot remove it (since i do
not own it). Should it really be doing this?

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Gerald Britton <gbritton@whitman.gmu.edu>
Walt Whitman Internet System Administrator