Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 6 Dec 1999 08:46:07 +0000 (GMT) | | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | | Subject | Re: Can't hardlink in different dirs. (BUG#826) |
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I want that the i_link of an inode can be changed only by an user that has > write permissions on the inode. I don't care if the permissions cames from > the uid/gid/other settings in the inode. > > I don't want an luser to increase the i_link of my inodes that he doesn't > have permission to change, to read to execute and to write.
just my $0.001 - the above will look like what happens in UW7 (UnixWare 7) when MAC_ACCESS is active. I would hate to see such semantics to be default - the others (AV, Richard etc) are right, imho, because it would seem your proposal will irritate many people used to good old UNIX ways...
Regards, ------ Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796 Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran PS. UNIX security is perfect, the improvements should come from the heart...
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