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Re: Silly 'script' hardlink bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shigorin)
Thu Dec 13 13:48:55 2001

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:58:46 +0200
From: Michael Shigorin <mike@lic145.kiev.ua>
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:02:36AM +0100, Marco van Berkum wrote:
> the harddisk. For instance, a malicious user can place
> a hardlink 'typescript' to /etc/passwd (or any other file)
> in his home directory. If the root user would execute
...and no sane system will get /etc and /home on the same
partition.  Still, it's beloved `mitigating factor', not a
solution.  Just my 2 copecks.

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 ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.ru>
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