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Date:      Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:38:59 +0200
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: File create permissions, what am I missing?
Message-ID:  <20050814063859.GN26471@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:01:52AM -0300, Jo=E3o Carlos Mendes Lu=EDs wrote:
> I could not find any vulnerability, but I do not like the idea that a
> user could create files belonging to a group himself does not belong.

It can come in handy sometimes. I have apache setup in a specific
group.  The document root on which it operates is owned by a user that
owns that website. The group owner of that directory is set to the
apache group, and luckily the user does not need to be in that group.

This way a user can control availability of files on the web by simply
denying group access, without needing to belong to yet another group
just for the sake of being able to do just that.

--Stijn

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"I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am.  It's
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