Re: Proposal: restrict link(2)

David Schwartz (davids@wiznet.net)
Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:27:25 -0500 (EST)

I think 'rm' should be modified to do this if a program that's
set[ug]id is deleted for just that reason. My customized version of 'rm'
on all my Linux machines does an 'ftruncate' before it unlinks to achieve
much the same effect.

DS

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On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Dale R. Worley wrote:

>
> If a setuid binary is revealed to be a security problem, why not just
> "chmod a-s" it before deleting it? Then it doesn't matter if someone
> else has a link to it.
>
> Dale
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