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Why would you use ownership data for disk quotas? That's crazy. It should be based on file location. Anything in the user's home directory comes out of their qu
by IshKebab 1y ago
Why would you use ownership data for disk quotas? That's crazy. It should be based on file location. Anything in the user's home directory comes out of their quota. I assume that's how it does work surely?
- Izkata 1y agoNot if the file is in the shared /tmp/
- kazinator 1y agoWhat if Alice leave her home directory permissions open? Mallory can then move a large file there and have it assigned to Alice's quota. I suppose it could work, but Mallory would then risk Alice blowing that file away (perhaps innocently, not even realizing it was Mallory's file).
- IshKebab 1y agoIf I leave my front door unlocked and you put a large cow in my house, it's taking up space in my house.