Re: ln weirdness

Raul Miller (rdm@rdm.legislate.com)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:07:10 -0500

Jon Lewis:
> That _is_ the point. If your system is old enough, and you're the
> sendmail type, you have had an a copy of sendmail with holes in it, and
> with the way hard links are treated, you actually still could have an old
> holey setuid copy of sendmail someplace other than where you'd expect it,
> even if you rm'd that old one.

You're being dense. Once someone has root access, they don't need to
worry about the exact semantics of ln to put a holey setuid copy of
sendmail someplace other than where you'd expect it.

I refuse to post anything more to linux-kernel on this topic.

-- 
Raul