wimpunk:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> > wimpunk:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've been wondering why my .forward files didn't worked like I
> >> expected and finally I found out dotforward doesn't accept linked
> >> files. Is there any reason why dotforward doesn't read links? In
> >> src/local/dotforward.c (line232 of the latest debian version) I wanted
> >> to change
> >
> > What if the symlink points to /dev/zero or /dev/random?
> >
> > Wietse
>
> It would fail because the file would be world writable.
Right, and your point is that all malicious symlinks under all
user's home directories will always resolve to a world-writable
file, so I should not have to worry about such things.
Wietse
