enhance security via private TMP/TMPDIR by default

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue May 24 22:18:43 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 10:32 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:

> 1. Each user should have there own ~/tmp space which only they can
> access.  This could be used for the users agent sockets, but also just
> for general files that they would put in /tmp.  This would give a better
> level of privacy (for whatever reason, but maybe simply so they don't
> have to think about the privacy implications of putting things in a
> publically accessible /tmp folder)

Of course, ~/tmp/ really sucks for this -- lots of places use nfs
homedirs, and you'd rather not put the sort of stuff you use /tmp for on
the network.
-- 
        Peter




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