Seth,
thanks for the explanation. You learn something every day. I've been
hacking away for almost 40 years now, and I hadn't considered how unlink()
could be used to bypass access permissions.
You had me ROTFL with your thoughts on apprenticeships in information
security.
:-)
Steve
Steve
On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 07:07:51AM -, steve gooberman-hill wrote:
> I'm agreed that this is the way the system permissions work. But, did you
> see the comment I added to the bug report?
Hi Steve, indeed I did.
> Further investigation shows that file ownership is also ignored
> If I change
Hi Seth,
thanks for your mail.
I'm agreed that this is the way the system permissions work. But, did you
see the comment I added to the bug report?
Further investigation shows that file ownership is also ignored
If I change the ownership and permissions of the file, then they are
ignored by the
This is the way Unix discretionary access controls work. So long as the
files are in Eve's home directory, and she retains ownership of her home
directory, she will be able to rename the ~/.config/ directory and
continue on as she wishes.
Furthermore, the screen locking is handled by a process
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security
** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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