Is there an FSDB Manual?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <572 at pd1.ccd.harris.com> bill at pd1.ccd.harris.com (Bill Davis) writes:
>In article <4960 at cbnewsm.ATT.COM> szirin at cbnewsm.ATT.COM writes:
>>Of course, anyone that can figure out how to use fsdb can easily read your
>>private file without ever touching the directory entry...
>If this were true, it would be a nasty security hole.

fsdb has to be able to access the disk device special file for this
to be a problem.  The two most probable ways for this to occur are
for fsdb to be installed setUID, or for the special file inode to
have too liberal access permissions set.