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

[Dave Reisner]

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