Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Aug 2004 13:42:43 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: dynamic /dev security hole? |
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On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:04:31AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Perhaps there are other ways to deal with the problem though.
Do what a number of distros do these days, make /dev a ramfs or tmpfs. That way no hardlinks outside /dev will work: $ ln /dev/hda /tmp/foo ln: creating hard link `/tmp/foo' to `/dev/hda': Invalid cross-device link
thanks,
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