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  1. Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!mrgreen
  3. From: mrgreen@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green)
  4. Subject: Re: Setuid file
  5. Message-ID: <mrgreen.721534907@munagin>
  6. Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
  7. Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
  8. References: <chupchup.720790116@piggy> <1d9ggiINNsfb@sequoia.ccsd.uts.EDU.AU> <1992Nov5.090120.14723@lut.ac.uk> <1992Nov9.131437.27571@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:21:47 GMT
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  12. flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
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  14. >jon@hill.lut.ac.uk (Jon P. Knight) writes:
  15. >>>: |    -rwsr-xr-x  1 root            0 Apr  7  1992 file
  16. >                                       ^
  17. >>
  18. >>Still, if you don't know what it is, back it up and then delete it. 
  19. >                                      ^^^^^^^^^^
  20.  
  21. >(chuckle) he already has backed it up, an infinite number of times
  22.  
  23. Forgive me if I'm wrong..  but doesn't this imply infinite storage ?
  24. I mean, you need to story the directory entry as well as the file
  25. don't you?
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