From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 16 4:30:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F95A14F6E for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:30:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25838; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA11040; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:30:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA25944; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:29:59 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199903161229.EAA25944@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:29:59 -0800 In-Reply-To: Jared Mauch "Re: ACL's" (Mar 14, 4:35pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Jared Mauch , Wilfredo Sanchez Subject: Re: ACL's Cc: Robert Watson , Thomas Valentino Crimi , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mar 14, 4:35pm, Jared Mauch wrote: } Subject: Re: ACL's } On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 01:28:52PM -0800, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: } > Is there any reason (other than "it always has been so") why users } > should be allowed to create hard links to files they don't own? } } I personally can't think of one. } } What would be interesting would be to see a kernel option } for it, have some folks test it, and see what might break } from this going on. I'd prefer a mount option, which would allow this policy to be configured on a per-filesystem basis. If you found that you needed this capability, you might be able to limit it to one little filesystem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message