From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 21:22:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201DBFC6 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:22:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43AA8FC13 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TYkPm-00042J-5o for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:22:32 +0100 Received: from 79-139-19-75.prenet.pl ([79.139.19.75]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:22:30 +0100 Received: from jb.1234abcd by 79-139-19-75.prenet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:22:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jb Subject: Re: curious -- what's /tmp/fam-root ? Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <50A3FD6E.6080607@dreamchaser.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 79.139.19.75 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:22:32 -0000 Gary Aitken 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