Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: your mail | Date | Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:24:06 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Steve Dodd <steved@loth.demon.co.uk> said:
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> If you want to stop people accessing *inodes*, the appropriate permissions > should be set for the inode. Permissions on directories AFAIK only control > access to the contents of the directory - which are just (name, inum) > pairs.
And I'm depending on that guarantee. "Open by inode" allows anybody go on a hunting session on the disk for "interesting" inodes they shouldn't be able to get at. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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