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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:22:08 +0000 (UTC)
From:      jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: curious -- what's /tmp/fam-root ?
Message-ID:  <loom.20121114T221924-31@post.gmane.org>
References:  <50A3FD6E.6080607@dreamchaser.org>

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Gary Aitken <freebsd <at> dreamchaser.org> writes:

> 
> Just curious; what's the purpose of /tmp/fam-root, and what is written there?
> Is it simply where the os writes stuff which is sensitive,
> and putting it in a rwx------ directory avoids potential security issues
> regarding file access?
> or is there more to it than that?

# procstat -af |grep -i fam
23038 polkitd            12 s - rw-------   1       0 UDS /tmp/fam-root/fam-
23040 gam_server          4 s - rw-------   1       0 UDS /tmp/fam-root/fam-
23040 gam_server          7 s - rw-------   1       0 UDS /tmp/fam-root/fam-
26654 thunar              7 s - rw-------   1       0 UDS /tmp/fam-jb/fam-
...
# file /tmp/fam-root/fam-
/tmp/fam-root/fam-: socket

jb
 







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