Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 00:10:46 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Gary D. Kline" <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can't rm -f /var/empty:: a new feature for 4.7? Message-ID: <20020913051046.GJ42486@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200209130501.g8D51EK01185@tao.thought.org> References: <200209130501.g8D51EK01185@tao.thought.org>
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In the last episode (Sep 12), Gary D. Kline said: > While running mergemaster with "t" to /tmp, I created a > /var/tmp/empty. All are dirs, and "empty" is mode "dr-". Not even > root can chmod or rmdir. I may be wrong, but the index node does > no seem to point to itself. Any ideas on what's going on? How to > remove? This is more of a HUH, WHAT THE HELL? than anything. I'm > stumped. It this a new security feature in 4.7PRE? You probably mean /tmp/var/empty ? I believe sshd chroots itself in there for some operations. It's flagged schg so root can't even do anything with it. Run "chflags noschg /tmp/var/empty" to remove the flag. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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