Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 16:40:35 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, bv@wjv.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Third /tmp location ? Message-ID: <20020223164034.A32672@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp8z9jn2o8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:28:39AM %2B0100 References: <bulk.16556.20020223043936@hub.freebsd.org> <20020223160159.GA59042@wjv.com> <xzpofignf6e.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020223161754.B32157@xor.obsecurity.org> <xzp8z9jn2o8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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--AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:28:39AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:58:33PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Bzzzt. FreeBSD has never had /usr/tmp, and all software that expects > > > /usr/tmp has been changed to use /var/tmp instead. > > Well, this isn't true. >=20 > Check for yourself; BSD.usr.dist has never had a tmp entry. There may > have been a time when it was created by sysinstall, but ISTR it was > deprecated in 1997 or 1998 because it made it harder to mount /usr > read-only. I'm not disputing that part, but your second assertion. There have already been examples posted showing where this is false (and it's already been agreed that they should be fixed). Kris --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8eDaCWry0BWjoQKURAjLIAJ9oYWyVcRbBrgMptSZUgusPgLvn9ACfavzD mgmiecnDuAnkI2gZPaMtZK0= =T5Us -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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