[ nonsense example deleted ]
> You have only a cursory understanding of how hard links work.
bull shit! I guess you don't have an idea about disk quotas
and disk space accounting ???
usually you're not accounting disk space using "du"...
asume: /home/joe/BIGFILE is a big and $$$ file accessable to jim
owned by jim
now jim makes a hard link from this file to /home/jim/hidden/let_joe_still_pay
now assume that joe deletes /home/joe/BIGFILE in order to save disk spaces
accounted to his quota and probably $$$.
and now think again how ownes /home/jim/hidden/let_joe_still_pay,
how probably has to pay for it and who can't do anything against this..
got the message?
or other example about access restriction:
assume: jim and joe are in (some) same group(s)
/home/joe/project/world_shouldnt_read is a file that...
so directory "project" can only be accesed using group permission
(e.g. permission 770 or 750)
now jim (how is allowed to access project and thus project/world_shouldnt_read)
want's to make spy's life easier: he creates a hard link from the file above to
/home/jim/donnation_to_the_world/TOP_SECRET where donnation_to_the_world
ahs e.g. permissions 755. now world is able to access the data in the file
"world_shouldnt_read" which wasn't planed at all from joe
(using multiple differnet groups there are situations where you can't
remove world acces from this file; access control is done through directories...)
and what about the message of this case ?
BTW: I still saw now reasonable argument why we *need* the ability
that joe is allowed to create hard links to jim's files ?!
Harald
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