Re: FS possible security exposure ?

[regatta <regatta@gmail.com>]

Thank you all, it was great information that you shared with me



On 12/25/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 13:10 +0300, regatta wrote:
> > I'm using Vi in Solaris and Vim in Linux, do you think this is the
> > problem ?
>
> that very well can be the difference
>
> > but if you think about it, how could the system allow the user to
> > modify a file that he don't own it and he don't have write privilege
> > on the file just because he has write in the parent directory ?
> >
> > Maybe I'm wrong, but is this normal ? please let me know
>
> this is normal and a result of the linux permission model.
> (and fwiw you don't get to edit the file, only to create a new file. You
> may think that's exactly the same.. but it's not in the light of
> hardlinks)
>
> Btw there is a "sticky bit" you can set on the directory which changes this behavior,
> for example /tmp has this set for obvious reasons
>
> > BTW: is there any document, article or any page about this so I can
> > show it to my boss :)
>
> I suspect the SUS standard fully specifies the 4 rules I mentioned and
> the sticky-exception (and the rest is an obvious result)
>
>
>


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