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Re: SPEC failures

from [Keith Owens] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SPEC failures
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 02:07:51 +1000
Cc: "Ken Cross" <kcross@xxxxxxxxx>, "Linux XFS" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:30:46 EST." <200108151530.f7FFUk400694@jen.americas.sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx 
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:30:46 -0500, 
Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>Andrew had the approach of setting the umask of the nfsd process to 0 at
>startup, there was some other reason for this not being popular.

It set _all_ kernel thread umasks to 000, opening quite a few security
loopholes.
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