Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:59:35 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sort(1) tempfile patch Message-ID: <XFMail.20001102145935.mheffner@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <p04330110b6276a964119@[128.113.24.47]>
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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 <mheffner@vt.edu> 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
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