From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>,
Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>,
"'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:20:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070903132019.GC21977@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708310935240.25853@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
...
> This is *not* a security hole. In order to make it a security hole, you
> need to be root in the first place.
Non-root users can write to places where root might believe they cannot write
because he might be under the mistaken assumption that ro means ro.
I am under the impression that that could have implications in some setups.
...
>
> - it's a misfeature that people are used to, and has been around forever.
Sure, they're used it it, but I doubt they are aware of it.
...
> so I really don't see why people excuse the new behaviour.
We can certainly agree that a nicer fix would be nicer :)
--
/ jakob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-03 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 21:07 recent nfs change causes autofs regression Hua Zhong
2007-08-30 22:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-30 22:47 ` Hua Zhong
2007-08-30 23:22 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-30 23:30 ` Hua Zhong
2007-08-30 23:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-30 23:44 ` Hua Zhong
2007-08-31 4:31 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31 4:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-31 4:47 ` Hua Zhong
2007-08-31 4:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31 5:09 ` Ian Kent
2007-08-31 7:50 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2007-08-31 1:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-31 4:33 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31 3:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-31 3:57 ` Hua Zhong
2007-08-31 4:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31 4:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-31 5:04 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31 5:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-31 7:40 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2007-08-31 8:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-31 8:51 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2007-08-31 16:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-03 13:20 ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]
2007-09-03 13:43 ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-08-31 12:11 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31 13:12 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-08-31 13:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31 14:42 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-09-04 7:51 ` David Howells
2007-08-31 8:28 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-08-31 5:24 ` Hua Zhong
2007-08-31 5:38 ` Ian Kent
2007-08-31 8:54 ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-08-31 16:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-31 19:03 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-04 8:02 ` David Howells
2007-09-04 8:35 ` David Howells
2007-09-04 9:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-31 18:47 ` Hua Zhong
2007-08-31 19:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31 19:35 ` Hua Zhong
2007-08-31 19:41 ` Hua Zhong
2007-09-02 0:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-04 7:54 ` David Howells
2007-09-05 12:35 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-05 15:34 ` David Howells
2007-09-05 12:44 ` Ian Kent
2007-09-05 15:37 ` David Howells
2007-09-05 15:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-06 5:23 ` Ian Kent
2007-09-05 16:26 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31 8:14 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-08-31 9:05 ` Ian Kent
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