Re: [uml-user] tmp partition

2005-11-10 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 10 November 2005 20:30, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Blaisorblade wrote on Friday, 11 November 2005 4:19 a.m.: > > How can anybody have a program "setuid root" there unless he has root > > access first? > > If you can trick root or a program running as root into creating files > or changing p

RE: [uml-user] tmp partition

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Eggleton
Blaisorblade wrote on Friday, 11 November 2005 4:19 a.m.: > How can anybody have a program "setuid root" there unless he has root > access first? If you can trick root or a program running as root into creating files or changing permissions for you, it's not that hard (eg. symlink attack). Grante

Re: [uml-user] tmp partition

2005-11-10 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 23:05, Gianni wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using Fedora 2 filesystem and all the directories uses a unique root > partition ( / ) > The problem is that in /tmp partition of my virtual server, I'm always find > some kind of script kiddie. > And I can't protect this directory