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Date:      Fri, 22 Feb 2002 19:53:17 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        "'freebsd-security@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Third /tmp location ?
Message-ID:  <20020222185317.GA6328@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <B57AF59C8ABFD411BBE000508BF300F303B7062A@wh01ex01.oskarmobil.cz>
References:  <B57AF59C8ABFD411BBE000508BF300F303B7062A@wh01ex01.oskarmobil.cz>

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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:18:02PM +0100, Milo? Pape?ík wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was very surprised when I found on freshly installed 4.5RELEASE third
> world writable directory /usr/tmp.
> 
> Is there any real reason for this "likely to be forgotten" location ?
> Why is on out of box installation ? Isn't the /tmp and /var/tmp enough pain
> ?
> 
The only light I can throw on this is that in one of my regular forays
into getting KDE to work properly I discovered it made a complaint
about /usr/tmp not being writable.

I throw this into the maelstrom of speculation. (and no I don't have
/tmp symlinked to /usr/tmp).

-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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