From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 3 03:59:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA05995 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (geos01.oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com [134.32.44.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA05990 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smoergrd@geos01.oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com) Received: from sunw132.geco-prakla.slb.com (sunw132 [134.32.45.120]) by oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA16209 ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:58:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by sunw132.geco-prakla.slb.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA09244; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:58:00 +0200 To: "Allen Smith" Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued References: <20545.899460699@verdi.nethelp.no> <9807030628.ZM9030@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Organization: Schlumberger Geco-Prakla X-Disclaimer: I speak only for myself. From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 03 Jul 1998 12:57:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Allen Smith"'s message of Fri, 3 Jul 1998 06:28:16 -0400 Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Allen Smith" 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