[OpenAFS-devel] kuserok() checking UID ownership on afs

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:54:57 -0500


On Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:36:16 PM +0100 Harald Barth 
<haba@pdc.kth.se> wrote:

>
>> Unfortunately, you're both trying to solve not the problem that Troy and
>> Russ were actually discussing.  You're trying to solve the "I can't
>> access  the user's .k5login" problem, but the problem they were talking
>> about is  "how can I prove that no one _except_ the user could have
>> written to the  .k5login?".
>
> I wrote that if you can open the file for _writing_ you probably are the
> user which could have written to it from the begining.

Just because you can write to it doesn't mean no one else can...