From owner-freebsd-audit Thu Nov 2 11:59:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C38437B4C5; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:59:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.190]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA2Jxbt432623; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:59:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from muriel.penguinpowered.com ([198.82.100.195]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0G3E0031IY7BYQ@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:59:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:59:35 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Heffner Subject: Re: sort(1) tempfile patch In-reply-to: To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.4 on FreeBSD Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=34587+0+archive/2000/freebsd-audit/ 20000130.freebsd-audit On 02-Nov-2000 Garance A Drosihn wrote: | Didn't we already have a fix to sort, which was to create a | subdirectory under /tmp and then have sort create all of | it's temp files in that subdirectory? | | If the files are in a correctly-permitted subdirectory, | then we don't have to care what the filename-creation | algorithm is (not wrt security, that is). -- Mike Heffner Blacksburg, VA ICQ# 882073 http://my.ispchannel.com/~mheffner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message