Hi!
I think that there is only one way to fix it - it's to disable making *hard*links to directory with mode 1777. On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Dmitry Valdov wrote: > Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:42:46 +0300 (MSK) > From: Dmitry Valdov <d...@dv.ru> > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-secur...@freebsd.org > Subject: disk quota overriding > > Hi! > > There is a way to overflow / filesystem even is quota is enabled. > > Just make many hard links (for example /bin/sh) to /tmp/ > > for ($q=0;$q<100000;$q++){ > system ("ln /bin/sh /tmp/ln$q"); > } > > Because /tmp directory usually owned by root that why quotas has no effect. > *Directory* size of /tmp can be grown up to available space on / filesystem. > > Any way to fix it? > > Dmitry. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message