Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:14:46 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How useful is this patch? Message-ID: <19971110081446.UX03181@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199711092202.OAA00530@bubba.whistle.com>; from Archie Cobbs on Nov 9, 1997 14:02:20 -0800 References: <19971109162421.IH64390@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199711092202.OAA00530@bubba.whistle.com>
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As Archie Cobbs wrote: > > Problem: you can cause someone else a DoS attack by maliciously > > filling his home directory. > > This attack would require that you have given the other user write > permission to your home directory, at least. ...or somewhere below your home directory. But well, if you don't want this, what's the sense behind it at all? :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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