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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:05:09 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c
Message-ID:  <20060331190509.GT73488@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060331171410.T88223@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200603302104.k2UL4qF7086165@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060331165414.GR73488@elvis.mu.org> <20060331171410.T88223@fledge.watson.org>

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* Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> [060331 09:20] wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> >EDQUOT ?
> 
> This won't normally happen for local file systems, as the root user isn't 
> restricted by quotas.  This can happen for NFS file systems where root is 
> writing to an NFS log directory and the uid is mapped to a non-root uid on 
> the server.
> 
> Oddly, we appear to allow several administrative quota calls, including 
> quotaon(), for the root user in jail, but not violation of the quota itself 
> (?).  Maybe I misread.
> 
> Robert N M Watson

I wonder about running syslog as a non priv user, then you could
do all sorts of fun stuff.

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein
- CTO Okcupid.com / FreeBSD Hacker / All that jazz -



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