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- From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
- Subject: Re: POSIX$SCRATCH world writable?
- Organization: University of Western Ont, London
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:12:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.131250.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- References: <1992Nov3.115453.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1992Nov4.070328.23256@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
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- In article <1992Nov4.070328.23256@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>, wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov3.115453.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
- >>b) this violates my VMS system managers security sensibility.
- >> Any work-around? Do you as a POSIX manager accept this?
- > I cannot find a reason why this violates security (more than letting
- > anything being done on a machine). Files in /usr/tmp are deletable only
- > by the creator and root. The blocks allocated are counted in the disk
- > quota; therefore the user cannot fill up the disk.
-
- I had missed the disk quota issue entirely. Many thanks. I believe
- this itself resolves my concerns about world writable.
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