cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_syscalls.c

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Mon Mar 8 14:43:49 PST 2004


On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:37:26PM -0800, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>           - security.bsd.hardlink_check_uid, when set, means, that unprivilege
>                   users are not permitted to create hard links to files not
>                   owned by them,
>           - security.bsd.hardlink_check_gid, when set, means, that unprivilege
>                   users are not permitted to create hard links to files owned
>                   by group they don't belong to.

Neat! I'd done something like this years ago, but couldn't figure
out if this should be enforced by syscall code or filesystem code.
I think that NFS was the main place that this made a difference, so
I wonder if the NFS server should know about these sysctls?

	David.


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