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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:07:17 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>
Cc:        Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: nullfs et al
Message-ID:  <20010312150717.F93848@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <200103121502.KAA25352@sjt-u10.cisco.com>; from sjt@cisco.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:02:54AM -0500
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0103121440330.26600-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <200103121502.KAA25352@sjt-u10.cisco.com>

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:02:54AM -0500, Steve Tremblett wrote:

> my mistake - I used this before on another OS.  I have not tried this
> on FreeBSD, so I can't attest to how it works.  On the system I did use
> it on, the absolute symlinks were interpreted relative to the REAL /,
> and the user only saw a regular file as opposed to the link.

Wow, that sounds like a massive security hole.  Which OS was it?

Kris

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