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From: tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SUID directories -- security concern?
Message-ID: <4555@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
Date: 24 Feb 90 20:38:38 GMT
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Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK)
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In article <26270009@hpclisp.HP.COM> shankar@hpclisp.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
)) As an interesting note under HP-UX 7.0 . . .
)Yes, the directory gets changed to a "context-dependent file".
)(Context-dependent files are used for diskless clusters on HP-UX - the
)"context" is, for example, a hostname of a client, or generic designators
)like "remoteroot").

The context-dependent files in HP-UX is IMHO a rather clever idea.  A
bit like Apollo's symbolic links containing environment variables.  Is
there any chance of other vendors taking up the idea?
-- 
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland