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Date:      Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:29:59 -0800
From:      Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
To:        Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>
Cc:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ACL's
Message-ID:  <199903161229.EAA25944@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
In-Reply-To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net> "Re: ACL's" (Mar 14,  4:35pm)

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On Mar 14,  4:35pm, Jared Mauch wrote:
} Subject: Re: ACL's
} On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 01:28:52PM -0800, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:

} >   Is there any reason (other than "it always has been so") why users  
} > should be allowed to create hard links to files they don't own?
} 
} 	I personally can't think of one.
} 
} 	What would be interesting would be to see a kernel option
} for it, have some folks test it, and see what might break
} from this going on.

I'd prefer a mount option, which would allow this policy to be configured
on a per-filesystem basis.  If you found that you needed this capability,
you might be able to limit it to one little filesystem.


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