From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 10 22:40:10 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 22:40:07 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA4537B400; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipittythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA55675; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:40:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBB6e2T88796; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:40:01 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Robert Watson Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <20001210224001.C88567@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200012092254.eB9Msbk55407@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:42:41PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:42:41PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > 1 3 * * * root lockf /var/run/periodic periodic daily > > 1 3 * * 6 root lockf /var/run/periodic periodic weekly > > 1 3 1 * * root lockf /var/run/periodic periodic monthly ... > As such, any random process running as any random user can acquire the > lock and stack up all your periodic scripts, DoSing you. What am I missing here?? Random users do not have write permission in /var/run/. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message