Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:54:41 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: get rid of tmp directories? Message-ID: <20041012205441.GA76398@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0410121346380.23730-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0410121346380.23730-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:49:15PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Do you know of anyone who runs systems without any world-writable tmp > directories? > > It seems like it is not needed. Some programs will honor TMP variable and > other programs may let you define where your tmp directory is at. So each > user and each program could have their own directories that are owned and > only writable by their own uid. TMPDIR is the canonical name for it..but not everything honours it. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBbESRWry0BWjoQKURAvz+AKD6R3+9RgIPmDdaVCEbZ9FoCBPKswCgmrBo U5piSAUtxXaZUXmwjzwqY7E= =URBM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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