files recovery after rm?

David C Lawrence tale at pawl.rpi.edu
Fri Nov 10 12:26:48 AEST 1989


In <20551 at unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo at unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore) writes:
Ken> I am assuming that you use a mask of 700 like I do so that people
Ken> can't overwrite your files.

This gets funnier and funnier all the time.  Why would you a) assume
anything of the sort, b) set your own umask to 700 and c) think that a
file with 066 (---rw-rw-) permission can't be overwritten by other
people?
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