Re: ln weirdness

Raul Miller (rdm@rdm.legislate.com)
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:39:05 -0500

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Jon Lewis:
> I think this was discussed a few months ago, and some onofficial patches
> were bounced around. IMO, this sort of hard linking should not be
> allowed. Consider the following:
>
> You have sendmail 8.6.x or 8.7.x (aka sendroot). It's suid.

At that point, you've already lost security on your system. Sorry.

-- 
Raul

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