On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > (Yes, I realize there are a few differences, such as it
> > prevents unlinking the file, and you can't do that without changing the
> > permissions on the containing directory, which you might not own.)
>
> Security alert... if I hard link to some elses file and they set the
> user-immutable bit (and deleted their last link) I can't clean out my
> own directory?
>
Can't be done, the file is immutable so they can't unlink it until they
remove the user-immutable bit. To end up with the file immutable again
they have to set the immutable bit in your directory.
> -- Jamie
>
Bryn
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