Re: [security]: kernel ioctl()'s [3]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:03:52 +0100 (BST)

> reasonable thing to do. It should get applied to the 2.3 tree, and
> perhaps to the 2.2 tree (it really isn't a bug fix as much as it is a
> new feature, although it's fairly low risk as new features go).

I think its out of the question for 2.2, too much software knows it can
write to users files as root. You've just broken that unix tradition (quite
possibly sensibly broken)

Alan

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