[Bug 293490] A Way Around Root Permissions

Tue Feb 7 00:28:42 GMT 2012

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293490

Christoph Feck <christoph at maxiom.de> changed:

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                 CC|                            |christoph at maxiom.de
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--- Comment #1 from Christoph Feck <christoph maxiom de>  2012-02-07 00:28:42 ---
KDE can do nothing about this. If you have write permissions in a directory,
you are free to add/remove/rename files in that directory. The only way to
prevent an application from creating crap in your home directory is to make the
home directory read-only.

See also
http://blog.hacker.dk/2010/05/users-can-deletemove-and-rename-files-owned-by-root-eg-via-an-ftp-server-why-and-how-to-fix-unlink_override-v10/

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