/tmp on tmpfs (was: Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-04-02))

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 02.04.12 16:55, Steve Grubb (sgrubb at redhat.com) wrote:

> On Monday, April 02, 2012 03:58:12 PM Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > * #834 F18 Feature: /tmp on tmpfs -
> > >
> > >   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs  (mitr, 17:40:06)
> > >   * AGREED: tmp-on-tmpfs is accepted (+5 -3)  (mitr, 18:12:52)
> > 
> > Actually I think this is a good feature, but ...
> 
> What about forensics? Any reboot erases information that might have been needed 
> to see what happened during a break in.

/tmp is already volatile and cleaned up in regular intervals. The new
clean-up on boot is just one tiny bit of additional clean-up.

Lennart

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