Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:05:09 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c Message-ID: <20060331190509.GT73488@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20060331171410.T88223@fledge.watson.org> References: <200603302104.k2UL4qF7086165@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060331165414.GR73488@elvis.mu.org> <20060331171410.T88223@fledge.watson.org>
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* Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> [060331 09:20] wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > >EDQUOT ? > > This won't normally happen for local file systems, as the root user isn't > restricted by quotas. This can happen for NFS file systems where root is > writing to an NFS log directory and the uid is mapped to a non-root uid on > the server. > > Oddly, we appear to allow several administrative quota calls, including > quotaon(), for the root user in jail, but not violation of the quota itself > (?). Maybe I misread. > > Robert N M Watson I wonder about running syslog as a non priv user, then you could do all sorts of fun stuff. -- - Alfred Perlstein - CTO Okcupid.com / FreeBSD Hacker / All that jazz -
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