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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:22:47 +0200, Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> said:

> 	Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something here, but isn't 
> having /tmp on the root filesystem just inviting a denial-of-service 
> attack on yourself?

Only if you let random lusers log in to your machine.

-GAWollman

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