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From: magma698hfsp273p9f@icebubble.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] notes on user none
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 06:33:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861rean8s9.fsf@cmarib.ramside> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C6FC97DF6C3CA262FE1ED467C5DC8CB4@eigenstate.org> (ori@eigenstate.org's message of "Sat, 23 Jan 2021 13:31:25 -0800")

ori@eigenstate.org writes:

> One thing that's worth noting: The reason that none
> only looks at world permissions is that *anyone* can
> become none with no authentication -- which means
> that a file readable by none is equivalent to a world
> readable file.
>
> Making 'none' only look at the world permissions is
> a reasonable way to avoid fooling yourself.

Um.  What if the file is owned by "none", but chmod 0400?  The u+r would
suggest that it would be readable.  But, if only world permissions are
checked, the o-r suggests that it would be be unreadable.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-26  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-22 23:44 Anthony Martin
2021-01-23  9:45 ` sirjofri
2021-01-23 14:02   ` hiro
2021-01-23 14:13 ` cinap_lenrek
2021-01-23 21:31 ` ori
2021-01-24  6:33   ` magma698hfsp273p9f [this message]
2021-01-25 19:44     ` ori
2021-01-31 21:42       ` magma698hfsp273p9f
2021-02-01 22:06         ` sirjofri

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