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Re: 1.3.19: Everyone has write access to .lnk symbolic link files

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:48:55AM -0500, Bob.Burger@sagian.com wrote:
> The DACL of symbolic link files created by "ln -s" on NTFS partitions gives
> Everyone write access to the .lnk file.

Thanks for the report.  I've applied a patch which only allows the owner
to modify the symlink.

Corinna

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