Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:19:41 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902010714490.8535-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990201160146.12625B-100000@turkey.ispro.net.tr>
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If you're worried about it, you could always put /tmp on a file system with quotas on it. But you have the same problem on the file system that peoples home directories are on - some non-root person can fill it, and cause everything else to fail. You solve those the same way - with quotas. Personally, having run systems for a couple of decades at large institution both public and private, this isn't really much of a problem The users id is all over the files causing the problems - you delete the file, killing their processes if required, and send them a sharply worded note about proper behavior. <mike On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:02:29 +0200 (EET) > From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> > To: Jasper O'Malley <jooji@webnology.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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