full-disclosure - Re: hard links on Linux create local DoS vulnerability and security problems

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Message-ID: <20031127015759.GG22219@sorting-hat.org>
From: cwis at nerim.fr (Christopher Allene)
Subject: Re: hard links on Linux create local DoS vulnerability and security problems

Jeremiah Cornelius (jeremiah@....net) wrote on 2003-11-26 at 14:18:
> And a mandatory system profile in /etc , which aliases ln as 'ln -s' might 
> help.  One for each valid shell.

How would such an approach avoid people calling symlink(2) or
unalias/whatever??

Seems as good as security through obscurity to me.

-- 
Christopher All?ne