Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:57:00 +0800 From: peter kok <peter@sweda.com.hk> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? Message-ID: <36B80F5C.8998A8@sweda.com.hk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9902011622420.7763-100000@mercury.webnology.com>
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Jasper O'Malley wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > what if some non-root person crashes a process by filling up > > /tmp directory? and when that proceses needs that directory > > it will not be able to use it. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hopefully, you've got your machine paging you if/when your filesystems are > filled up. If you like, as I suggested before, you can put /tmp on its own > filesystem and apply (large) user quotas to it. That way, it takes a > concerted effort to fill up /tmp, not one rogue user. But you really, > really should keep the permissions on /tmp mode 1777. you mean: do i change the tmp directory to 1777 (chmod tmp 1777)? then, could the system page me 'filled up'? thank you ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Cheers, > Mick > > The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com > Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral > Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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