Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 22:12:44 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: m-braithwaite@sjca.edu Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Obvious fix for tempfile race conditions? Message-ID: <E0viZGn-0006Qz-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:31:17 EST." <199701080331.WAA02781@continuity.sjca.edu> References: <199701080331.WAA02781@continuity.sjca.edu>
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In message <199701080331.WAA02781@continuity.sjca.edu> Matt Braithwaite writes: : If I've got that much of it right, why not simply add a mount option : to disable symlinks on a given filesystem? Because it isn't needed? It is possible to safely remove file in /tmp or other hostile grounds by using fchdir and comparing before and after inode# and device# using stat and fstat. Check out the netbsd current list for a "saferm" that was posted there. Warner
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