Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression
From: Jakob Oestergaard
Date: Mon Sep 03 2007 - 09:20:31 EST
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
...
> This is *not* a security hole. In order to make it a security hole, you
> need to be root in the first place.
Non-root users can write to places where root might believe they cannot write
because he might be under the mistaken assumption that ro means ro.
I am under the impression that that could have implications in some setups.
...
>
> - it's a misfeature that people are used to, and has been around forever.
Sure, they're used it it, but I doubt they are aware of it.
...
> so I really don't see why people excuse the new behaviour.
We can certainly agree that a nicer fix would be nicer :)
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/ jakob
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