On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 06:38:46PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > I've put together a patch that lets ssh work around the OS bug that > allows bind to follow symlinks. There isn't general consensus that this is an OS bug. We (as in FreeBSD) have installed a workaround consisting of blocking symlink following for the case, but we have not yet decided if we should make this permanent. In my opinion, ssh is clearly the buggy party here; not following symlinks in the OS is just a workaround to avoid buggy programs causing problems. We will only do this if we find that there are so few legitimate consumers of the behaviour that we can change it without problems - so far, we've only found one consumer, and it is only of historic interest, being a part of FreeBSD itself (related to /dev/log creation, IIRC) and only present in old versions. Eivind.
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