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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:49:07 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@...i.dit.ie> To: Michael Wojcik <Michael.Wojcik@...roFocus.com> Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com Subject: Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. > (*)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.
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