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Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 08:58:09 +0100 From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange@....no-ip.org> To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com Subject: Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:49:07PM +0100, David Malone wrote: > > (*)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. If the target belongs to the right person, not the symlink itself. Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
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