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From: Leif Walsh <leif.walsh@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Sean <sean@gothic.net.au> wrote:
> Easy.
> Create a symlink etc, to /etc
> Create a file etc/passwd containing whatever you want.

This could be an artifact of coming from the Linux world and knowing
little about the BSD kernel (and I should probably lurk a bit longer
before posting on a new list), but wouldn't the symlink resolve and
result in a totally new chain of lookup/permissions calls?  I don't
see how making a symlink to a location allows you to change the
permissions of that location just by changing the permissions of the
symlink.

-- 
Cheers,
Leif