Following to my previous email I have to say some things. the /boot directory in my machine is
drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0) does not belong to the disk group it is root.root So obviously although I hadn;t realised that before if a group you belong to owns a directory which is writable by the group you can delete stuff from it without owning the files and without belonging to the group which owns the files. Is this safe ?? More importantly I don't know if this is a bug of the installation procedure about 1 1/2 years ago but the permission to /boot were set by that procedure and I never changed them. I know users should not probably belong to group disk but I could have damaged my system really bad if I had no spare kernels. I guess I must remove the user from the disk group as soon as possible. By the way why is /boot writable by the group disk? Sorry for the long email George ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
