SUID directories -- security concern?

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Thu Mar 8 06:26:55 AEST 1990


>Therefore by logical extension SUID on a directory should cause the
>newly created files to take on the UID of the directory!

Had Berkeley made that the behavior in 4.2BSD, it probably would have
ended up working that way.  I don't think they would have made that
behavior, though (they certainly didn't in *this* universe).



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