Re: CERT Advisory CA-93:17

Peter shipley (shipley@merde.dis.org)
Wed, 17 Nov 1993 19:17:28 -0800

>Peter's message dated: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 15:35:27 PST
>> 
>>     % cat >! /tmp/fofo
>>	< ... etc ... >
>
>It seems like at least on some systems you can only create files, not
>append to or replace existing files.
>
>	//niko


it sometimes helps to be famiular with  the man pages......


from the chmod(2) man pages:

     If the sticky  bit  is  set  on  a  directory,  an unprivileged
     user  may  not delete or rename files of other users in that
     directory.