From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 1 07:19:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04178 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:19:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA04164 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:19:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 8559 invoked by uid 100); 1 Feb 1999 15:19:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Feb 1999 15:19:41 -0000 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:19:41 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: 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 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. 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? > > 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