Re: root permissions

[kevintx () paranoia com (KevinTX)]

>       Well, this is not a bug but a question on
> the design of most Unix systems. It seams to me, and
> I tried this on Ultrix 4.3, HPUX 9.01, Linux 1.1.x,
> when root opens a file, being the owner or not, the 
> system does not check the  file permissions before
> granting him access. The same goes for writting and
> unlinking a file.

I've long considered this to be "wrong" as well.  Forcing root to have to 
obey whether something is allowed to be writable by root would close up a 
lot of the various holes out there.  Of course this creates problems with 
things like the traditional "passwd" program that would then have to know 
to do a chmod to give root write perms to the password file..

kevin
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