Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:24:19 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for an idea Message-ID: <199611272324.RAA17937@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199611260923.AA137920219@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> References: <199611251840.SAA21376@right.PCS>
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In article <199611260923.AA137920219@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>, Hr.Ladavac <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> wrote: >> How about having the client create a file of mode 000, and then pass that >> open file descriptor back to the server? Since it's mode 000, only the >> owner of the file could have opened it (or chowned it to 000). The file can >> either be created randomly by the client, or specified by the server. >Won't work on SysV. Anyone can chown(2) his own files to anyone else. >The funny thing about it is that they claim they support quotas :) It will if you insist the file is chmod +s. The only person who can create a setuid file owned by user "A" is user "A".
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