Re: [security]: kernel ioctl()'s [3]

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:34:29 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Chris Evans wrote:

> IMHO, immutable support is fine as it is - as Alan has rightly said,
> giving users the opportunity to set some variant of immutable on their
> files, is dangerous.

Why? user-immutable can be removed by user and by root. If the
system-immutable is set the user-immutable simply doesn't affect anything
(except that if you will remove system-immutable user-immutable will be
still there; you can remove it as you can remove sticky, group-writable,
whatever). What is dangerous with that?

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