Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:58:26 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> Cc: Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk quota overriding Message-ID: <36F10682.1028368F@newsguy.com> References: <199903181243.BAA22599@aniwa.sky>
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Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > I don't use quotas, and don't know a great deal about how they operate, but I think there's another disk filling DOS involving hard links lurking which the above measure would also solve. > > If a user starts making hard links to (large and growing) log files, with the new links being placed in /var/mail, then presumably those log files will not be deleted correctly as they are rolled over, and will quickly accumulate. And what the f* is the user doing with read access to the log directory? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "What happened?" "It moved, sir!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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