Re: Security problems with access(2)? - off topic

2001-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
Greg Black wrote: Bill Moran wrote: | Thanks for the additional explanation. It has done a number of things | for me, one of which is convince me that (for my application) the use of | access() is not a security problem. You're almost certainly wrong in that conclusion; and even if

Re: Security problems with access(2)? - off topic

2001-03-31 Thread Mike Smith
Sorry ... didn't think anyone was interested, and it's off topic, but here it is in a nutshell: The client I'm working with is moving from a Novell server to a FreeBSD server using Samba. They're very unhappy with Samba's behaviour in only 1 respect: on the Novell server, files/directories

Re: Security problems with access(2)? - off topic

2001-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
Mike Smith wrote: This is actually an interesting case. I have some interesting clients. The reality of the matter is that their filesystem organization on the server is terrible. This could all be solved with a properly reorganized directory hierarchy - and that was my first suggestion when

Re: Security problems with access(2)? - off topic

2001-03-31 Thread Greg Black
Bill Moran wrote: | Mike Smith wrote: | This is actually an interesting case. | | I have some interesting clients. The reality of the matter is that their | filesystem organization on the server is terrible. This could all be | solved with a properly reorganized directory hierarchy - and that