On 06:48 20 Feb 2003, Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:36:43PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > On 08:05 19 Feb 2003, Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | But isn't this a filesystem feature? How can mutt (not) change the mod time | > | on a file? | > It could do it after the fact with the utime() call. | | Really? I thought that one required su permissions to do such a thing... | Seems like a big security hole to allow any owner of a file to change the mod | times... Wow...
It's only a security hole if you imagine that mtime is immutable, and depend on it for something critical. I can't see how it's worse than allowing users to _write_ to files they own - after all they could _erase_ them, or fill them with lies! How do you think "tar" et al unpack stuff with the right timestamps? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. - Thomas Jefferson -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
