Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 02:03:09 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: msmith@comtch.iea.com, nlawson@kdat.csc.calpoly.edu Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suspicious symlinks in /tmp Message-ID: <199602271503.CAA03513@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>However, the bug that I have seen for quite a while and complained about is >that a symlink is owned by the owner of the file it points to, not by the >creator of the symlink. That is a bad idea and I really can't see the logic >behind doing that. >Could someone explain this behavior? The symlink is owned by the owner of its parent directory. I think this is to conform to future POSIX standards. Many other things involving symlinks changed in 4.4lite. See `man 7 symlink'. Bruce
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