Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 08:53:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Guido van Rooij <Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com> To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: coredump@nervosa.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [linux-security] Things NOT to put in root's crontab (fwd) Message-ID: <199605220653.IAA23614@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960521203607.17971A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at May 21, 96 08:54:18 pm
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Tom Samplonius wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 May 1996, Chris J. Layne wrote: > > > I think this applies to our cleanup of /tmp in /etc/rc > > I think it doesn't. > > Our rm removes links, not files pointed to by links. So: > > cd /tmp > ln -s /etc/passwd thing > rm thing > > will remove the link, not /etc/passwd. > > We are not dependant on find to produce a "valid" list of files, so > that rm does not remove something important. > Besides, our find contains a -type, which also does not find symlinks ( as long as type is not l). Furthermore, the find is commented out by default stating it is not secure. -Guido
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