Re: Fix for ssh-1.2.27 symlink/bind problem

[vix () CYBER EE (Toomas Kiisk)]

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On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 06:38:46PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
> > I've put together a patch that lets ssh work around the OS bug that
> > allows bind to follow symlinks.
>
> There isn't general consensus that this is an OS bug.  We (as in
> FreeBSD) have installed a workaround consisting of blocking symlink
> following for the case, but we have not yet decided if we should make
> this permanent.

Look at bind(2) definition of latest Single UNIX spec, and pay
special attention to errno values (ELOOP is there).

> In my opinion, ssh is clearly the buggy party here; not following
> symlinks in the OS is just a workaround to avoid buggy programs
> causing problems.

Right.

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