Possible security problem, need information...

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <1991Mar19.151145.11208 at decuac.dec.com> mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>>"ls -ld /" is "drwxrwxrwt".
>	mv /bin /...

Won't work. Notice the sticky-bit is set on /.  That means you cannot delete
or rename files that you do not own.  You can create new files and
directories in /, but that's about it.  So it's less insecure than it
appears.

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