Subject: Re: [vserver] Requirements for file to be hashified
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:29:22 +0100

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:01:45PM +0000, Ed W wrote:
> Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> >
> > Content, and basic properties. Hashifying a file owned by root and one
> > owned by a user would be rather bad...

> Hmm, assuming that link breaking on change *is* enabled, then actually I
> don't immediately see the problem with that one?  Obviously it's not a
> safe suggestion unless link breaking is enabled, but subject to that
> caveat I can't immediately see how it could be exploited to do something
> naughty?

well, it would just be wrong, because the user
would not want to have his/her file owned by root
and probably root wouldn't want to have the file
owned by some (maybe not even local) user :)

HTC,
Herbert

> Ed