Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric Brunet) | Date | Sat, 4 Dec 1999 00:02:35 +0100 (MET) | Subject | Re: Can't hardlink in different dirs. (BUG#826) |
| |
In ens.mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote: >The *only* disadvantage of hard links is that people can prevent you >from cleaning up when you reach your quota limit. On filesystems >without quotas, lusers will just punish themselves as much as you, >thus it's a self-correcting problem. > >So, *IF* you are on a FS with quotas, and *IF* you are working in a >hostile environment, *THEN* you should lock off your directories. > Just my 2 cents, but if your environment is that hostile, you don't even need to lock your directories. A simple solution is to modify (or wrap) rm in such a way that it truncates the files to size 0 before unlinking them. No leak of quota space, no security concern, no need to lock one's directory, no need for set[gu]id script, no need for new groups...
Éric Brunet
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |