Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:24:21 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How useful is this patch? Message-ID: <19971109162421.IH64390@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199711090436.UAA26951@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Julian Elischer on Nov 8, 1997 20:36:20 -0800 References: <199711090436.UAA26951@freefall.freebsd.org>
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As Julian Elischer wrote: > if a mount option is specified, then setting the SUID bit > on a directory specifies similar inheritance with UIDS as we > presently have with GIDs. As long as it's a mount option (defaulting to off), i think i could live with it. > The SUID bits are hereditary to child directories, and > a file 'given away' in this manner > 1/ cannot be give n to root (would defeat quotas) > 2/ has the execute bits stripped off (and suid) Problem: you can cause someone else a DoS attack by maliciously filling his home directory. (I didn't review the patch itself, so i explicitly don't comment on stylistic etc. bugs. Make sure the style adhers to the requirements of style(9).) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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