Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Dec 1999 23:33:16 +0100 (MET) | From | Gergely Madarasz <> | Subject | Re: Can't hardlink in different dirs. (BUG#826) |
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Really it seems nobody cares about the implications of the problem and if > nobody needs the change I don't need it either for myself. So probably > it's better to put the change in an unofficial patch (for example in the > Solar's secure-linux patch with the stack not executable stuff?) so very > special cases will have a way to go with linux.
Actually Solar's patch has something like this implemented, hidden behind the {[*] Restricted links in /tmp} config option, but it is even more restrictive with hardlinks, it allows only the owner to make hardlinks. Since it breaks some software like the mailman mailing list manager, I proposed him to allow hardlinks on files with write access, he said it still has some security implications but he'd think about it, I don't know what happened since...
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