Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Worm/Passwords Message-ID: <536@auspex.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 88 18:24:44 GMT References: <22401@cornell.UUCP> <4627@rayssd.ray.com> <8563@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <277@ispi.UUCP> <22832@beta.lanl.gov> Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 8 >Just make it so that if the sticky bit is set on the directory's mode, >only the file's owner or root can unlink() it. BSD already does this, 4.3BSD, anyway. So does System V Release 3.2; both systems, as I remember, also allow the owner of the *directory* to remove any entries in it. I think there's one other case where S5R3.2 allows an entry to be removed but 4.3BSD doesn't, but I can't remember what it is.