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Standards, the kernel, and Postfix

Standards, the kernel, and Postfix

Posted Aug 21, 2008 1:50 UTC (Thu) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217)
In reply to: Standards, the kernel, and Postfix by jzbiciak
Parent article: Standards, the kernel, and Postfix

Ah. Because you can't unlink the original name of the root-owned symlink (in the case of an
important file in /etc at leats), you can't get the same effect.

And I can't think of a root-owned file that would live in a dir a regular user can write to...


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