Subject: Re: misc/6166: No obvious documentation on symlink modes
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/17/1998 08:37:46
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > 	lrws------  1 dave  user  7 Sep 16 10:00 y@ -> /bin/sh
> > Now, what does this mean?
> Nothing. It means nothing. Why do you assume it must mean something?

I know systems that execute 'y' in that way as if it was setuid dave...
(probably wouldn't even be a bad idea - would allow an "admin"-user to
execute some commands as root without making the whole binary setuid root)


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>