Access control and other stuff (was Re: Authoritative hooks updated to 2.4.13)

From: Valdis.Kletnieksat_private
Date: Sun Oct 28 2001 - 21:56:52 PST

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    On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:50:41 PST, Seth Arnold <sarnoldat_private>  said:
    > Sadly, Solar Designer's Openwall +t world-writable-directory symlink
    > patch (that is a long name :) actually doesn't stop all those pesky /tmp
    > races. Samba 2.0.9 and earlier had /tmp race problems that could also be
    > exploited with hard links. (Of course, a seperate /tmp partition would
    > solve that problem.. :)
    
    I'll worry about that once I manage to code a module that fixes the
    symlink part of the problem without oopsing. ;)
    
    /Valdis
    
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