Local users get to play root?

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> 2009/11/18 Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com>:
>> On 11/18/2009 01:22 PM, James Antill wrote:
>>>
>>> 3. Are there any attacks due to disk space used? Eg. If /var is low² I
>>> can probably install enough pkgs to make logging stop.
>>>
>>
>> I'm betting there's still enough systems out there without enough space in /usr for the entire package set.
>
> That's kind of a silly exercise in what-ifs. The default anaconda
> partition scheme is /boot, <swap>, and /. If someone wanted to fill up
> the disk, they can just write to /tmp on a default install.

well - except for the 5% reserved for root :)

-sv