Subject: Re: File names and security...
To: Andrew Brown <codewarrior@daemon.org>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/06/1997 10:26:18
> if it is added, file systems you are importing may not disallow it even
> though your local systems do.  net effect: you won't be able to access
> bizarrely named files on the the nfs filesystems if it's a system wide
> variable.  in which case, filesystems by filesystem seems to be the
> way to go...

However, if you're concerned with the security implications of
newlines-within-filenames, do you actually _care_ what FS they're on?

I don't think so.