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Re: possible security flaw in screen 3.9.5-9



{Big Snip}
How would a quota stop the user from stuffing /var to its limit? Isn't
that part of the problem where the user could stuff /var and hemorrage the
logs?

~mmiller

::>
::>more headaches for /tmp cleaners and it does not solve any of the
::>above problems.  to solve the above problems enforce quotas on /var
::>(which can be much smaller then /home quotas, say 5 or 10 MB) that is
::>what i do.
::>
::>-- 
::>Ethan Benson
::>http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
::>

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