Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ln weirdness | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:07:10 -0500 | From | Raul Miller <> |
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Jon Lewis: > That _is_ the point. If your system is old enough, and you're the > sendmail type, you have had an a copy of sendmail with holes in it, and > with the way hard links are treated, you actually still could have an old > holey setuid copy of sendmail someplace other than where you'd expect it, > even if you rm'd that old one.
You're being dense. Once someone has root access, they don't need to worry about the exact semantics of ln to put a holey setuid copy of sendmail someplace other than where you'd expect it.
I refuse to post anything more to linux-kernel on this topic.
-- Raul
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