From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 18 10:16:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from host07.rwsystems.net (kasie.rwsystems.net [209.197.192.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4040314EAA; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:16:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwyatt@RWSystems.net) Received: from kasie.rwsystems.net([209.197.192.103]) (1979 bytes) by host07.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:53:59 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-24) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:53:54 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: Robert Watson Cc: Andrew McNaughton , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Dmitry Valdov , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk quota overriding In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > The linking behavior in conjunction with quotas makes a lot of sense: if a > user wants to consume someone else's quota, she just hard links to their > files so they cannot delete them. And if she are mean, she links to them > in private directories so the victim cannot find the links. Even if the > user truncates the file, the inode is still consumed in their name. User's manager: Why can't you read your mail or write code? Now, *why* was your unix account blocked? Why did you do *that*? After I make systems fairly secure, I do not hesistate to warn users if they interfere with others. I raraly hesistate in cutting accounts off after warnings. I warn for things like filling /tmp when you vi a 100M application dumo file. I block for things like demonstrably(sp?) injuring others. As I usually log info (ls of dir, clip log msgs, etc...), I usually get cooperation from management. It has also assisted them in gathering enough records to remove such folks from the payroll - they are usually problem folks in other areas as well. Fix social problems with social tools - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message