Re: Possible DoS in rsh

From: Henrik Nordstrom (hnoat_private)
Date: Thu Oct 08 1998 - 23:14:55 PDT

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    Nick Andrew wrote:
    
    > Programs (esp. daemons) which run as root should refuse to read
    > control files which are symlinks (and home directories should not
    > be on the same partition as /dev!).
    
    Should this be worded: Any service daemons should refuse to read
    files which are not files (symlinks, device files, pipes and other
    non-disk-file types) or not owned by the right user with proper
    permissions.
    
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    Henrik Nordström
    



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