>>>>> "AL" == Allen Landsidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

AL> server, but my gut instinct tells me it's the server.  I would really 
AL> uneducatedly guess that the server is not switching it's effective user id 
AL> to that of the user issuing the request before the request is 
AL> processed.  If you could, can you see if you're allowed to modify files 
AL> that you have read-only access to that are owned by another user/group?  I 
AL> suspect you'll be able to write to any file that you can read from.

Nope. If the file is owned by someone else, then all permissions
checks work as expected.

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