From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 6 16:31:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-172.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E825D37B407; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f86NVf318544; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:31:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:31:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp In-Reply-To: <20010906055708.P55388@hal9000.servehttp.com> Message-ID: <20010906192746.D18481-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 (Moved to questions from -security, with a BCC of this question to -security. Those on -security who want to answer should post their reponse to questions, and then we're done with this thread in -security.) On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Andrew J Caines wrote: > 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? Uhh, what happens when your machine panics? With a VM-backed swap, savecore can't grab the crash dump; therefore, you can't get a traceback. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message