George, I noticed this on my one remaining bo machine. Hamm seems to have taken care of this bug.
Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] G. Kapetanios wrote: > > 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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]