From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xs4all.nl>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xs4all.nl>,
Linux NFS mailing list <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: broken_suid mount option
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 23:55:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040905215558.GA29526@janus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094420629.8081.39.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 05:43:49PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> Just yesterday I saw traces made on a college server by a student this
> summer in which >99% of the traffic was broken lookups of .Xauthority by
> 'root' processes...
So they run old XFree86 software with broken setuid programs and
compensate using the broken_suid mount option. They probably use
an old kernel as well. Isn't it time to change this for 2.6?
You mentioned the word "security" ;-)
--
Frank
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-05 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-05 21:37 broken_suid mount option Frank van Maarseveen
2004-09-05 21:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-09-05 21:55 ` Frank van Maarseveen [this message]
2004-09-05 22:03 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-09-06 19:39 ` [RFC] remove "broken_suid" nfs " Frank van Maarseveen
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