Re: Horribly Mistimed complaint about fs/open.c:chown_common()

Majdi Abbas (abbas@cdtelecom.com)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 08:42:28 -0400 (EDT)

Andreas Barth wrote:
| Yes, it does. Anyone who is allowed to create files in that directory can
| quite easily start a sgid-program to get membership of the group.

Presumably one does not make restricted-access directories world
writable; if they are group writable, to write to them you already have to
be in the group.

--msa

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