[NBLUG/talk] yama: non-matching-uid symlink following attempted

[gandalf at sonic.net]

I just looked those up. I'm one of those (whansen) and then there is 
another. I looked in /tmp and both users have links up (even though I'm 
not logged on right now with that account). Mine all seem to be 
associated with printers. Not sure if that's what it's upset about or 
not.


On 2015-09-02 15:05, Omar Eljumaily wrote:
> That's what I was thinking.  Who are users 11071 and 10973?
> 
> 
> On 9/2/2015 2:31 PM, gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
>> BrowserBlocking does not appeare to be a user. There are 33 users 
>> logged on currently. Perhaps I could trace the fsuids?
>> 
>> 
>> On 2015-09-02 14:24, Omar Eljumaily wrote:
>>> Can you look at the files that those users should have access to,
>>> perhaps home directories, and see what's going on there?
>>> 
>>> Does the message appear with different user ids or are they all only 
>>> those 2?
>>> 
>>> Is BrowserBlocking the username?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 9/2/2015 12:26 PM, gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
>>>> I'm wondering where the link is to be able to look at it. This 
>>>> warning message doesn't appear to have much help.
>>>> 
>>>> On 2015-09-02 12:12, steve wrote:
>>>>> On 09/02/2015 11:59 AM, gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
>>>>>> getting these
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [110176.160365] non-matching-uid symlink following attempted in 
>>>>>> sticky
>>>>>> world-writable directory by BrowserBlocking (fsuid 11071 != 10973)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> finding lots on how to turn it off, but I'm just wondering where 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> link is so I can fix/delete it.
>>>>> ls -l on the link will tell you what it's linking to if that's what
>>>>> you're asking.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Steve S.
>>>>> 
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