From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Oct 27 19:08:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA19097 for fs-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 19:08:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.96.1.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA19092 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 19:08:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA17386; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:07:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:07:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Wolfram Schneider cc: Don Lewis , Ollivier Robert , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disabled symlinks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 27 Oct 1997, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > I thought about that too. May be public writable + sticky bit (mode 1777). > IMHO this should be controlled by a sysctl variable > 1) do not create symlinks > 2) do not follow symlinks at all > 3) do not follow symlinks in directories with the mode 1777 Or discrete mount options? nocsymlink nofsymlink etc? /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */