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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:07:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disabled symlinks
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971027220702.25408G-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <p1i90vf74tu.fsf@panke.panke.de>

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On 27 Oct 1997, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> I thought about that too. May be public writable + sticky bit (mode 1777).
> IMHO this should be controlled by a sysctl variable
> 	1) do not create symlinks
> 	2) do not follow symlinks at all
> 	3) do not follow symlinks in directories with the mode 1777

Or discrete mount options?

nocsymlink
nofsymlink

etc?

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