From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 31 03:05:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01318 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 03:05:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (daemon@smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01294 for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 03:05:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19627; Sun, 31 May 1998 03:05:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd019615; Sun May 31 03:05:28 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA20689; Sun, 31 May 1998 03:05:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805311005.DAA20689@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... To: julian@whistle.com Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 10:05:27 +0000 (GMT) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Julian Elischer" at May 30, 98 03:53:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Just to get peace over the land again, I think you should implement > > it so that one can mknod a device again, but discard the dev_t, > > and use whatever DEVFS knows (better). This is a security hole. If a device is removed from a chroot environment, it should be impossible to recreate it. The reasoning should be obvious. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message