Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
manoj wrote: > Safe or not, it is UNIX ;-). Deleting a file is not actually > modifying the file, you are really modifying the directory the files > reside in. So, if you have write permissions to a directory, you may > delete any other file that is in there, as you observed. This can't >

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"G" == G Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> So obviously although I hadn;t realised that before if a group you G> belong to owns a directory which is writable by the group you can G> delete stuff from it without owning the files and without G> belonging to the group which owns the

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: > I noticed this on my one remaining bo machine. Hamm seems to have > taken care of this bug. > > G. Kapetanios wrote: > > > > Following to my previous email I have to say some things. > > > > the /boot directory in my machine is > > > > drwxrwsr-x

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Following to my previous email I have to say some things. > > the /boot directory in my machine is > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot > the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was > deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0)

Re: user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in : /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that : after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments : concerning security. So I tried

Re: user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 06:02:47PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Hi, > > Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in > /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. um 644...thats um... owner: rwx group: r other: r ? I don't know my octal modes..forgive me :) anyw

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
George, I noticed this on my one remaining bo machine. Hamm seems to have taken care of this bug. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Following to my previous email I have to say some things. > > the /boot directory in my machine is > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk