From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: setfsuid on ext2 weirdness (2.4)
Date: 08 Jan 2001 23:39:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7tSnVTQ1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93d7fr$429$1@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <93d7fr$429$1@penguin.transmeta.com>
torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 08.01.01 in <93d7fr$429$1@penguin.transmeta.com>:
> And hey, if you think the above is confusing, try making your /dev/null
> a regular (writable) file by mistake. Now THAT will be confusing as
> hell: things will actually work surprisingly well, but some thing
> _really_ don't work the way they are intended to. And chasing it down
> is an exercise in futility. Yes, I've done that at least twice as root
> by mistake.
So have I. It's so damned easy. Just remove the original; pretty soon
*something* will create a plain file there.
Now you have:
* Actual input reading from /dev/null (and it changes!).
* Unusual permissions on /dev/null
Fun fun fun. Many unusual failure modes.
MfG Kai
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-08 1:55 setfsuid on ext2 weirdness (2.4) Bjorn Wesen
2001-01-08 11:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-08 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 21:39 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
[not found] <200101082021.MAA04177@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-01-08 20:31 ` Bjorn Wesen
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