This is not about ports or C language.... I cannot write a program to
delete a program unless I have the priviledge to delete that file (at
least not a shell script... and not SUID).
There may be all kinds of inode tricks you can play, but at that point,
you probibly already know not to delete the entire file system.
Paul D. Farber II
Farber Technology
Ph. 570-628-5303
Fax 570-628-5545
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On 30 Mar 1999, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Paul Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Again, this is a security issue, not a single/multi user issue. It
> > should be difficult to delete or modify a .dll/exe program file.
>
> > You SHOULD have to type into a special "admin" account to install/remove
> > a program. Single user or not.
>
> While this may very well be a good idea, I'm not aware of any Unix which
> requires this, provided that the program doesn't want to talk on
> priveleged ports or have access to raw hardware.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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