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Message-ID: <200405141849.i4EIn790067572@kac.cnri.dit.ie>
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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