From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 19:58:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3E537B502 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e922wAf29110; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:58:10 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: david@banning.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tempnam() possibly used unsafely; keeps showing Message-ID: <20001001195809.L27736@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200010012250.WAA62120@d.tracker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200010012250.WAA62120@d.tracker>; from david@www3.pacific-pages.com on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:50:39PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Banning [001001 19:55] wrote: > I get this error message quite a bit while compiling. > > Now I am getting it compiling mysql322-client; > > .libs/libmysqlclient.so: warning: > tempnam() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp()^M > > I am attempting to go through every file that makes up > libmysqlclient.so to see if tempnam is in, then change it to > mkstemp - but it is a lot of work. > > Maybe the error is not really important. > > Anyone know anything? Honestly if you're not sure for the reason of this message then you ought to leave it up to someone with more experiance securing programs than yourself. Contact the mysql authors and complain to them. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message