Re: Odd filesystem permission handling

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:05:02 -0400 (EDT)


Wakko Warner writes:

>> This must be stopped:
>>
>> ln /etc/passwd ~/passwd
>> chown user.group ~/passwd
>
> doesn't work:

Yes, because Linux prevents operation 2.
It would be more logical (but less traditional)
to prevent operation 1 instead.

For now, I'd prefer to prevent both operations.
It is unsafe to allow operation 2 without getting
rid of old kernels and evil links.

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