Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 15:48:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com> Cc: Joe Gleason <clash@tasam.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quota bug crashing system? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980808153328.3139C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980808152803.0094d820@mail.kersur.net>
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On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > Speaking of quotas, maybe someone can enlighten me on a quota > related issue: it seems that (at least as some 6 months or so ago), > 2.2 didn't correctly handle SUID programs. e.g. if a SUID root > process has done setuid() (whichever flavor) to some less privileged > UID, the original (root) quota continues to apply. This is arguably > a bug. From what I can tell looking at the code, the decision about Not quite. Quotas are done by file ownership, not the current uid. You should check that the file you are writing to is owned by someone with the appropiate quota. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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