[4412] in Athena Bugs
re: symlinks on kerberos ticket files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Mon Mar 5 13:02:07 1990
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 13:01:37 -0500
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: kerberos-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
After some discussion, I've decided to leave the code as-is, which
explicitly disallows symlinks for ticket files; there are security
concerns w.r.t. creation & manipulation of ticket files if symlinks are
allowed. Ref #471 & responses in krb_bugs meeting.
Please close this report.
John
