informations about boot sequence (Re: F15 - mysql start problem)

[Michał Piotrowski]

2011/5/10 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>:
> On Mon, 09.05.11 23:54, Michał Piotrowski (mkkp4x4 at gmail.com) wrote:
>> No, only for /run/user/ - because there is a simple workaround that
>> can be used on affected systems if the administrator considers his
>> system as vulnerable for malicious users.
>
> Again, we had /dev/shm for years on Linux. This weakness in the security
> model is not news, not at all.

Yes, but /run/user is a new thing and it gives wonderful opportunity
to DoS services for all system users. Thats my POV. And my POV is that
it should be documented - users should be aware about this. Also FPL
agreed with my arguments.

That's all. If you do not agree with that, then I'm giving up :)

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> Lennart
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