Messages in this thread | | | From | Lyle Seaman <> | Subject | RE: Can't hardlink in different dirs. (BUG#826) | Date | Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:10:29 -0500 |
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Because the access control is on directories only, it will be hard to know precisely what access is permitted to any file with link count > 1.
Per-file ACLs do make this much clearer, despite the cost.
> Hard links are incredibly useful and it make no sense to > disable them only > for security issues as security can be addressed by > forbidding changing > the inode->i_link by users that can't change all other fields of the > inode.
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