Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:56:04 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: get rid of tmp directories? Message-ID: <20041012175604.3c4748c5@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0410121346380.23730-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0410121346380.23730-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:49:15 -0700 (PDT) "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote: > Do you know of anyone who runs systems without any world-writable > tmp directories? > > It seems like it is not needed. Some programs will honor TMP > variable and other programs may let you define where your tmp > directory is at. So each user and each program could have their own > directories that are owned and only writable by their own uid. Yeah, that reminds me, is there any lib or any thing that is usually used for grabbing name/location for temp files, or is this usually handled by a program it's self? If there is, the possibility of changing it to use ~/tmp or something of the like, is a interesting idea.
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