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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:59:36 GMT
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- From: Richard Letts <R.J.Letts@SALFORD.AC.UK>
- Subject: Re: execute only flag
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Jim Wirt" at Dec 23, 92 12:05 pm
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- Jim Wirt writes....
- >
- > Richard,
- > I know that Novell claims that the files can only be deleted once
- > they are flag execute only but I think there is a bug. If you delete
- > an EXECUTE only file it can be then be salvaged and the EXECUTE only
- > flag is removed. I was real suprised when I discovered this. It is
- > a bug in what I was assuming was a safe way to protect an individual
- > file.
- >
-
- Neat - this goes into the supervisors bag of tricks - one has to be able to to
- anything for a user, aparantly without effort in order to cultivate the
- mystique that networking is difficult.
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- Richard .sig deleted.
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