Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:10:41 -0600 From: Bob Giesen <BobGiesen@earthlink.net> To: "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Q: is it correct to make symlink /tmp -> /usr/tmp Message-ID: <E16b7bp-0005qo-00@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <001b01c1b4b5$9680fac0$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> References: <001b01c1b4b5$9680fac0$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua>
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On Wednesday 13 February 2002 11:40 am, Andrey Simonenko wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any security pitfalls if I delete /tmp, create /usr/tmp > and make symlink /tmp to /usr/tmp? > > ps: /tmp is not a separate fs, it is directory in root fs Jooc (just out of curiosity), do you have separate / and /usr slices and are you trying to free up some root-slice space? I've seen it done this way, frequently. There shouldn't be any security issues, unless you're doing something out of the ordinary with pernissions and/or automounting of /usr. (Automounting usr would, indeed be out of the ordinary...) Since /tmp and /usr/tmp are, presumably, world-readable and -writable, it shouldn't cause any problems. -- "A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished." -- Zsa Zsa Gabor (1918-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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