Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:25:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9902011622420.7763-100000@mercury.webnology.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990201160146.12625B-100000@turkey.ispro.net.tr>
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On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> 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.
Hopefully, you've got your machine paging you if/when your filesystems are
filled up. If you like, as I suggested before, you can put /tmp on its own
filesystem and apply (large) user quotas to it. That way, it takes a
concerted effort to fill up /tmp, not one rogue user. But you really,
really should keep the permissions on /tmp mode 1777.
Cheers,
Mick
The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com
Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral
Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji
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