On Fri, 16 May 1997, Piete Brooks wrote:
> > If you've got root at the time, why can't you just change your euid to the
> > person who owns the directory?
>
> I assume that's what ph10 meant -- but what if you can't find the owner of the
> directory ? Do you walk back until you can read the dir, seteuid to the owner
> of that dir, and try again, etc .... :-((
Quite. And I presume that even becoming the owner of the directory may
not help you if there is a block further up the path.
What I meant was to run the stat() as root.
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