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This section briefly summarizes rules of thumb for avoiding security pitfalls.
$ chmod go-rwx . $ mkdir -m go-rwx dir $ cd dir $ tar -xvf /archives/got-it-off-the-net.tar.gz |
As a corollary, do not do an incremental restore from an untrusted archive.
tar
. For example, while you are
executing ‘tar -cf /archive/u-home.tar /u/home’, do not let an
untrusted user modify ‘/’, ‘/archive’, or ‘/u’.
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to detect denial-of-service attacks.
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