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Bill Ricker

@nixCraft <Pedeantic /> dead-drops are essential trade-craft. 007 is fine permission for a dead-drop directory. an at(1) job or filesystem-watcher trigger uses a setuid program to move dropped contents to a setuid directory quickly.

Viss

@nixCraft 007 sure is 'gloryhole' permissions, isnt it

Mark Shane Hayden

@nixCraft if the global execute bit is set that means we all have a license to kill(1)

Andrew C. Dingman

@nixCraft maybe it's his umask, and his primary group is a UPG?

Freevolt

@nixCraft Imagine you have a toilet in your house but only guests can use it. That's 007. A crapper only for guests. It doesn't matter how urgent you are.

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