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> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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