Re: Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

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Christian Hesse <list@xxxxxxxx> on Tue, 2014/12/30 13:42:
> Mohammad_AlSaleh <ce.mohammad.alsaleh@xxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I just came across some weird behavior.
> > 
> > A small testcase:
> > 
> > cd /tmp # should be tmpfs
> > touch tfile
> > ln -s tfile tlink
> > cat tlink
> > 
> > When cat executes, it returns with success(0). But, if cat is executed
> > as root, it fails with a permission denied error.
> > 
> > What's really happening is, the open() syscall fails with EACCESS when
> > the file is a symlink in a tmpfs-mounted dir. But only fails when run
> > as root!
> > 
> > I'm assuming this is a bug. Can anyone confirm it?
> 
> This is expected as /tmp has the sticky bit set.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#Symlink_restrictions

As this was related to Ubuntu and pathes do not match... You can control the
behavior via proc filesystem:

/proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks

Or simply use sysctl:

sysctl -w fs.protected_symlinks=0

If you want to make this permanent add the entry to configuration file
in /etc/sysctl.d/.
-- 
main(a){char*c=/*    Schoene Gruesse                         */"B?IJj;MEH"
"CX:;",b;for(a/*    Chris           get my mail address:    */=0;b=c[a++];)
putchar(b-1/(/*               gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig    */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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