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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:32:00 +0200
From: Christian <evil@g-house.de>
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To: "Lisa R. Nelson" <lisanels@cableone.net>
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Subject: Re: File Permissions are incorrect. Security flaw in Linux
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Lisa R. Nelson wrote:

> [root@localhost root]# cd /
> [root@localhost /]# mkdir junk
> [root@localhost /]# chmod 777 junk

therefore is the sticky bit: users can still create files in the 
directory, but only remove files they are owning:

chmod 1777 /junk

(as your /tmp should be).

do you mean the behaviour has changed for some kernel version? did you 
notice another behaviour with kernel version x.y.?

Thanks,
Christian.