Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 18:40:52 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: User Questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hardening /tmp Message-ID: <CAAdA2WOmES355oaat7SYNfg-qReeBfVJvNj7tzq1SoHG5oOwsw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <687643e26aeb858b3b5d9f5693829360.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <687643e26aeb858b3b5d9f5693829360.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On 8 February 2017 at 18:22, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions < freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > How do most people handle hardening /tmp and /var/tmp on FreeBSD? I > can get rid of /tmp from the file system and then simply mount it as a > tmpfs in /etc/fstab. > > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,mode=01777 0 0 > > However, /var/tmp is supposed to survive across reboots so how is this > handled? > How about just getting rid of /tmp and creating a symlink to /var/tmp? I am trying to understand the dangers around that.. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft."
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