enhance security via private TMP/TMPDIR by default

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:59:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > # For privacy and security, set temporary directories to ~/tmp on local
> > # filesystems -- but for network filesystems, make up one in /tmp.
> > # The trap statement cleans up the temporary directory if it's empty on 
> Why not use /tmp/<username> instead?

Because avoiding using predictable filenames is one of the advantages.

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