From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 01:33:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E291916A4CF for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:33:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6DD443D4C for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:33:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7B74453631; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:35:34 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Vulpes Velox Message-ID: <20041013013534.GA83248@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041012175604.3c4748c5@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041012175604.3c4748c5@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: get rid of tmp directories? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:33:11 -0000 --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 05:56:04PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:49:15 -0700 (PDT) > "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: >=20 > > Do you know of anyone who runs systems without any world-writable > > tmp directories? > >=20 > > It seems like it is not needed. Some programs will honor TMP > > variable and other programs may let you define where your tmp > > directory is at. So each user and each program could have their own > > directories that are owned and only writable by their own uid. >=20 > Yeah, that reminds me, is there any lib or any thing that is usually > used for grabbing name/location for temp files, or is this usually > handled by a program it's self? >=20 > If there is, the possibility of changing it to use ~/tmp or something > of the like, is a interesting idea. See my email. Kris --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBbIZjWry0BWjoQKURApmbAKCVguoAvGAVSNHmOlz+GdniIHAaXQCfYsmz B8IDF2arj2hwFowaP07ZlmM= =5nBT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--