Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 03:33:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No 'stupid user tricks' filenames? Message-ID: <386F99FF.92B1B644@newsguy.com> References: <200001012339.RAA30322@celery.dragondata.com>
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Kevin Day wrote: > > Has anyone thought about a sysctl to disallow the creation/renaming of file > names to make them contain characters they probably shouldn't have? > > While I have no idea why, my customers seem to enjoy finding filenames that > will make afio choke, or make some tool somewhere not like them. > > Before I go about trying to implement this, does anyone have suggestions or > comments? > > (Yes, I realize the tools should be able to handle things like this, and > that I should cluebat anyone trying this. However, it's still annoying, and > should probably be not allowed under secure environments) Implement this as a file system layer that adds semantics to file creation and renaming. Yeah, I know that's not what you wanted to hear. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Nice try, Lao Che." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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