Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 May 2020 21:47:38 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christian Kujau <> | Subject | Re: file system permissions regression affecting root |
| |
On Wed, 13 May 2020, Patrick Donnelly wrote: > However, it seems odd that this depends on the owner of the directory. > i.e. this protection only seems to be enforced if the sticky directory > is owned by root. That's expected?
According to the documentation[0] this appears to be intentional:
protected_regular: [...] When set to "1" don't allow O_CREAT open on regular files that we don't own in world writable sticky directories, unless they are owned by the owner of the directory.
C.
[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt -- BOFH excuse #263:
It's stuck in the Web.
| |