Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 08:10:40 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: David Hedley <hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: symlinks misfeature? Message-ID: <199609031510.IAA03081@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Sep 1996 14:44:21 BST." <19399.841758261@kiha>
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>Having just done man 7 symlinks, I notice that it says symlinks are not >owned by the user that created them, but rather by the owner of the >directory. This is all very well until a user creates a symlink in /tmp >and then finds out they can't remove it as the symlink is 'owned' by >root (the owner of the directory), and /tmp has the sticky bit set. > >Is there any solution to this problem? I realise (being documented) it >isn't really a bug, but surely this behaviour is not desirable? If there >is a workaround for it I would knowing appreciate it! The solution will likely be that we'll have to revert the 4.4BSD behavior back to the traditional unix behavior. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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