https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=686817 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=686817#c0 Summary: forbid creating hard links to foreign objects Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.4 Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 An operator should not be allowed to create hard links to foreign objects in a sticky directory it cannot unconditionally write to (drwxrwxrwt) because she has to ask the object’s owner to remove them afterwards. In other words, the operator should be able to undo every operation she performs, (with hardware permitting and suid operations excepted). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. { cd /tmp && ln /bin/ls ls && rm ls; } Actual Results: 1. rm: operation not permitted Expected Results: 1. ln: operation not permitted Coreutils bug#8117 (INVALID). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.