[34899] in bugtraq
Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Malone)
Fri May 14 19:02:02 2004
Message-Id: <200405141849.i4EIn790067572@kac.cnri.dit.ie>
To: Michael Wojcik <Michael.Wojcik@MicroFocus.com>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 May 2004 11:19:55 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:49:07 +0100
From: David Malone <dwmalone@cnri.dit.ie>
> (*)Contrary to the FAQ entry you cited, it is sometimes useful to change the
> ownership of a symlink. Since the owner of a symlink can be detected by a
> program, there can exist programs which depend on it.
Yes, indeed. As another example, Apache has an option to only follow
symlinks if they belong to the right person.
David.
