Bug#312515: c/s/u options give false sense of security

2005-06-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.24.1600 +0200]: > News flash: not all Debian users use Debian kernels. *That* is their own fault. And it would be easy to check this such that chattr would warn only if a Debian kernel was used. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#312515: c/s/u options give false sense of security

2005-06-24 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:32:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.23.1755 +0200]: > > The problem is that e2fsprogs doesn't know whether or not the > > kernel is going to honor those attributes. Emitting an > > error/warning message may very

Bug#312515: c/s/u options give false sense of security

2005-06-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.23.1755 +0200]: > The problem is that e2fsprogs doesn't know whether or not the > kernel is going to honor those attributes. Emitting an > error/warning message may very well become inaccurate in the > future. Point is that no Debian kernels

Bug#312515: c/s/u options give false sense of security

2005-06-23 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:19:28PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Package: e2fsprogs > Version: 1.37-2sarge1 > Severity: important > Tags: security > > Please emit an error message when the user tries to set the c/u/s > attributes as they are not in effect with current implementations. > A user c

Bug#312515: c/s/u options give false sense of security

2005-06-08 Thread martin f krafft
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.37-2sarge1 Severity: important Tags: security Please emit an error message when the user tries to set the c/u/s attributes as they are not in effect with current implementations. A user coming from another environment may falsely assume his/her data to be compresses/u