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SubjectRe: dynamic /dev security hole?
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,

greg k-h
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