Re: [arch-projects] [initscripts] /run is writable by users

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 04:50:32PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

Hi all,

Looks like /run is writable by every user but also limited to 10MB. This way you can run a dos attack on the system by filling this fs; even by accident. Do we really need write access by every user?

Greetings,

Pierre

-- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Yeah, this was discussed on systemd-devel: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-April/001839.html The short version is: there was no solution proposed that seems applicable to us. regards, dave