From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Oct 29 16:40:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA28936 for fs-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA28929 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous215.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.215]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA18061; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:37:18 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id AAA00609; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:57:02 +0100 (MET) To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disabled symlinks References: <199710271726.KAA13912@usr01.primenet.com> From: Wolfram Schneider Date: 30 Oct 1997 00:57:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of Mon, 27 Oct 1997 17:26:08 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: Lines: 19 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > In fact, I would prefer he modify the patch to still allow root to > create symlinks. Agreed. Good idea! > The danger you are escaping is symlinks created by your users. Right. > Personally, I'd prefer that the security holes be closed instead of > worked around in this manner anyway, uh-huh ;-) -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/