From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 3 00:51:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25758 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 00:51:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fw.tech-trans.com (pc003.tech-trans.com [210.184.43.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25750 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 00:51:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@sweda.com.hk) Received: from sweda.com.hk ([172.16.132.188]) by fw.tech-trans.com (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16032; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:51:51 +0800 Message-ID: <36B80F5C.8998A8@sweda.com.hk> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:57:00 +0800 From: peter kok X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jasper O'Malley" CC: Evren Yurtesen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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