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Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on
psz
maths.usyd.edu.au
Date: Tue Nov 03 2009 - 17:17:13 CST
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>>> "mount --bind" behaves like a hard link and it does not increment the link
>>> count.
>
> # touch /tmp/a
> # mount --bind /etc/passwd /tmp/a
> # ls -l /etc/passwd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1990 2009-08-24 16:22 /etc/passwd
> ...
> Two references to the same inode, yet the link count is 1 and /proc is
> nowhere in the picture.
But, mount requires root (and root can do anything, including shooting
himself in the foot).
Cheers, Paul
Paul Szabo pszmaths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
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