From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 6 2:57:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.halplant.com (24-168-203-47.wo.cox.rr.com [24.168.203.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA3C537B407 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:57:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7AE7A1F8D; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 05:57:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 05:57:08 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <20010906055708.P55388@hal9000.servehttp.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <20010904221809.B57312B@usul.nersc.gov> <20010905183015.A824@hades.hell.gr> <20010906094931.B30676@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20010906051207.O55388@hal9000.servehttp.com> <20010906104359.E30676@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010906104359.E30676@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>; from ceri@techsupport.co.uk on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:43:59AM +0100 Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.4-RC X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ceri, This doesn't obviously have a security angle, so feel free to take it to -questions (with CC, please). > > What makes you uncomfortable? > In the lines you quoted ? Nothing. Ok. > Having my swap partition mounted on a memory file system makes me > uncomfortable I think it's a bit misleading to say that the "swap partition" is mounted. I think it more accurate to say that the storage device which backs this filesystem is the system's VM. The filesystem simply provides the semantics for the I/O. What about this makes you uncomfortable? -Andrew- -- ______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message