[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation
From: |
Wols Lists |
Subject: |
Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:15:24 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 |
On 13/02/17 15:23, David Wright wrote:
>> It seems daft to me that you need "w" permissions, and I haven't
>> > experimented deeply with it, but if I have access to a file, why
>> > shouldn't I be able to create a link to it?
> Because it's a security risk. Geriatric unixers might wonder why their
> suid scripts no longer work: similar reasons.
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/502621/
>
Thank you very much indeed. I've relaxed hardlink security on my machine
(well, hopefully next time I boot), and starred your email for reference :-)
Cheers,
Wol
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, (continued)
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, Urs Liska, 2017/02/12
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, N. Andrew Walsh, 2017/02/12
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, Simon Albrecht, 2017/02/12
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, David Wright, 2017/02/12
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, N. Andrew Walsh, 2017/02/12
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, David Wright, 2017/02/12
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, N. Andrew Walsh, 2017/02/12
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, David Wright, 2017/02/13
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, Wols Lists, 2017/02/12
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, David Wright, 2017/02/13
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation,
Wols Lists <=
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, N. Andrew Walsh, 2017/02/25
- Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation, David Wright, 2017/02/25