Proposing Fedora Feature for private /tmp and /var/tmp for all systemd services in Fedora 17.

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon Nov 7 21:25:12 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> said:
> I think this is a question for lennart, I am not sure how he sets them
> up.  If I was setting them up, I would probably set them up by default
> under /run/SERVICE/tmp and bind mount over /tmp or something like
> that.  And I would figure the root user could see them.  If he is only
> mounting as tmpfs then I don't think the admin could easily get into
> the namespaces to see them.

I would be against something that hides stuff from root.  That's a
recipie for disaster.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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