Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:35:34 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: get rid of tmp directories? Message-ID: <20041013013534.GA83248@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041012175604.3c4748c5@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0410121346380.23730-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <20041012175604.3c4748c5@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net>
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--y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 05:56:04PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:49:15 -0700 (PDT) > "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote: >=20 > > Do you know of anyone who runs systems without any world-writable > > tmp directories? > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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? >=20 > If there is, the possibility of changing it to use ~/tmp or something > of the like, is a interesting idea. See my email. Kris --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBbIZjWry0BWjoQKURApmbAKCVguoAvGAVSNHmOlz+GdniIHAaXQCfYsmz B8IDF2arj2hwFowaP07ZlmM= =5nBT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--
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