Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 19:28:51 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disabled symlinks Message-ID: <199710271828.TAA01989@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <199710271726.KAA13912@usr01.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 27, 97 05:26:08 pm"
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> > As far as "nosuid" goes, I will note that if root runs a program on > a nosuid mounted volume, the program runs as root. And root can also > "suid" to any user id, and run the program, simulating an "suid" event. > ?? So what. That isn;t the issue here. If root runs rm -rf / things will also break. That has nothing to do with suid. > So if the intent is to make it act like "nosuid", then it should only > affect creation, and being root should override the option (ie: root > can still create symlinks). I still think otherwise. Now that symlinks do have owners, teh same can be achieved by only following symlinks if they are owned by root. -Guido
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