On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:33:00 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 08:56:31 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote:
>>
>>To prevent that security exposure you need to ensure that the mount 
>>specifications for all those userid-prefixed zFS data sets specify NOSETUID, 
>>which is not the default.
>
>Thanks Walt!  Great point that I didn't think to mention because I set this up 
>so long
>ago I forgot about that consideration.   I do have that set on the systems / 
>sysplexes
>that use the user's HLQ.  For example:
>
>name       *                  
>type       ZFS                
>filesystem <uc_name>.TPLEX.ZFS
>mode       rdwr               
>duration   10                 
>delay      10                 
>setuid     no                 
>allocuser  space(2,1) cyl     
> 
Beware also of "uc_name", which allows a nuisance (perhaps inadvertent)
DoS attack.  Prevent this with either "charcase lower" or "charcase upper"
(or "asis_name"), at the cost of losing some flexibility in naming.

(Would asis_name with DISABLE(DSNCHECK) also work?)

-- gil

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