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sticky bit & nosuid filesystems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sun Jun 24 07:05:39 1990

To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 90 07:05:26 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>


The kernel appears to obey the sticky bit on programs on filesystems
mounted nosuid.  It should not (setting the sticky bit is and should
be a privileged operation).


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