From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 1 06:03:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA23634 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 06:03:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from turkey.ispro.net.tr (turkey.ispro.net.tr [195.174.18.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA23615 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 06:02:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by turkey.ispro.net.tr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA12749; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:02:29 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:02:29 +0200 (EET) From: Evren Yurtesen To: "Jasper O'Malley" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG what if some non-root person crashes a process by filling up /tmp directory? and when that proceses needs that directory it will not be able to use it. On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > programs could have been using $HOME/temp > > or something like that... > > would not it be more appropriate? > > What about non-root system processes? What about people who have already > exceeded the quota on their home filesystem and need a place to > temporarily move stuff while they clean it out? > > Cheers, > Mick > > The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com > Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral > Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message