Re: BUG: simple attack when control channel muxing is used (was: Re: ControlMaster question)

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On Mon 2014-11-10 08:41:02 -1000, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> A normal user cannot create hardlinks on files owned by other users,
> right?

This depends on your kernel.

Some recent Linux kernels prohibit this kind of behavior, but many older
Linux kernels (and i'm sure some non-Linux kernels) freely allow the
creation of hardlinks to files not owned by the linking user.

      --dkg

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