Date: 03 Jul 1998 12:57:59 +0200 From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) To: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued Message-ID: <rx4d8bngq14.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> In-Reply-To: "Allen Smith"'s message of Fri, 3 Jul 1998 06:28:16 -0400 References: <XFMail.980703105306.lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at> <20545.899460699@verdi.nethelp.no> <9807030628.ZM9030@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
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"Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> writes: > On Jul 3, 12:11pm, sthaug@nethelp.no (possibly) wrote: > > At one of my former employers we had a large number of HP-UX diskless > > hosts, using CDFs. We saw far too many cases of users inadvertently > > having their directories "disappear" (and similar problems) because > > they had turned the CDF bit on. It was a real support hassle. > Another reason to have this limit is to prevent people from hiding > files using it from various security checking tools; see Garfinkel & > Spafford's _Practical Unix & Internet Security_, pages 136-137. (To > give you some idea, it's under "Oddities and Dubious Ideas" for a > reason.) Now why does this remind me of the recent Windows NT "hidden streams" (or whatever they were called) debacle? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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