Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:15:42 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> Cc: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACL's Message-ID: <19990314191542.53FE63E@woodstock> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:07:28 %2B1000." <99Mar14.195521est.40346@border.alcanet.com.au>
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In message <99Mar14.195521est.40346@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy wrote: } Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> wrote: } >BTW, I'd really like to get rid of hard links -- they allow users to } >retain copies of setuid files after the owner thinks they are deleted. } } This strikes me as overkill. Why not just change either rm(1) or } unlink(2) to remove set[gu]id bits on executables? This would have } the same net effect and the behaviour can probably be justified. It would have to be an option and not the default behavior, otherwise you'd have a real mess when you really did want to delete just one link to a file and leave the rest alone. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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