From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 17 15: 1:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.enteract.com (thor.enteract.com [207.229.143.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0CA8152E4 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:01:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 3696 invoked from network); 17 Mar 1999 23:01:00 -0000 Received: from nathan.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.6) by thor.enteract.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 1999 23:01:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:01:00 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Jon Hamilton Cc: Ladavac Marino , 'Dmitry Valdov' , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk quota overriding In-Reply-To: <19990317144148.12DFF62@woodstock.monkey.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jon Hamilton wrote: :Under HP-UX 9.x, the behavior you describe was the default, and it :was changable by altering a kernel config parameter and relinking the :kernel. The same tunable is available under 10.x, but I'm less certain :what the default behavior is there. Whether quotas are enabled or not :does not affect the behavior, only the kernel tunable parameter. This is still the default in 10.20. At least, all of the machines around here are that way. It has some uses on test and lab type machines, as it makes some tasks not have to involve root. As default behavior for a production machine, it is damn silly. David Scheidt : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message