From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262433AbTJATv0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:51:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262457AbTJATv0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:51:26 -0400 Received: from madrid10.amenworld.com ([217.174.194.138]:29188 "EHLO madrid10.amenworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262433AbTJATvY (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:51:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 21:27:57 +0200 From: DervishD To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: "Lisa R. Nelson" , linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: File Permissions are incorrect. Security flaw in Linux Message-ID: <20031001192757.GD22367@DervishD> References: <1065012013.4078.2.camel@lisaserver> <20031001132318.GS7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1065017722.2995.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20031001154040.GU7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20031001154040.GU7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Pleyades User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Lisa :) * viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk dixit: > > What you are saying is stupid; If all directories are wide open, > > NO files are protected in any way, even if they are read only and > > owned by root? Get real. Well Lisa, if you write things like those, even after a rude answer, the most you can expect is a more-than-rude reply... > > I've worked on more OS's than you can imagine, and for many years. > The sad thing being, that's one claim I do *not* doubt. Lusers' ability > to avoid learning for years had stopped amazing me a long time ago... Calm down, please ;))) Lisa, you were wrong, assume it. If you have such working experience, you should have learned a bit more about Unix permissions... Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/