Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-32,: Re: More file flags

# Re: More file flags

Simon Richter (geier@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 21:34:55 +0200 (CEST)

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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> You'd have to disallow them access to the raw block device too -- libe2fs
> makes it quite easy to run through the filesystem and get the data.

AFAIK you should not be able to access block devices in securelevel 2
directly (says the definition). If this is still possible, I think this is
a bug.

Simon

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