Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:02:29 +0200 (EET) From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990201160146.12625B-100000@turkey.ispro.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9902010633400.7530-100000@mercury.webnology.com>
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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. On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > programs could have been using $HOME/temp > > or something like that... > > would not it be more appropriate? > > What about non-root system processes? What about people who have already > exceeded the quota on their home filesystem and need a place to > temporarily move stuff while they clean it out? > > Cheers, > Mick > > The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com > Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral > Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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