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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 1999 16:51:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      patl@phoenix.volant.org
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ACL's
Message-ID:  <ML-3.3.921459105.6212.patl@asimov>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990314174217.5121K-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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> So, does anyone have any examples of situations handled incorrectly/badly
> by allowing only the owner of a file to link() it?

I'm sure there have been times when that would have caused an irritating
need to su.  How would you feel about relaxing that to owner or anyone
with write permission?  (And I suspect I'd still want that to be a sysctl
flag that could revert to current behavour.)



-Pat


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