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
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 >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.