On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:10:50PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:11:06 -0800, > Ryan Lovett wrote: > > I don't know if this is intentional, but if /etc/hosts.equiv or .rhosts > > are symlinks, ruserok fails. Moving the target of the link into place > > causes ruserok to succeed. > > ruserok() does not accept when it's not regular file. What is the reason for this? Is this a security feature or buggy behavior?
> > ruserok also succeeds if hard links are used. > > ruserok() should be failed when hard links are used. I guess this > behavior is not related with ruserok(). Could you confirm it using > strace or ltrace? You're right. What I thought was a hard link really wasn't. > > Symlinks are fine on Solaris. > > The behaivor of ruserok is OS-dependent, so Solaris is not related > with this report. I know that its libC dependent, but I thought I'd give an example of another OS whose libC doesn't have this behavior. Why does glibc's ruserok behave this way with respect to links? Is it a security issue? Ryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
