enhance security via private TMP/TMPDIR by default

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Thu May 12 15:59:28 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 11:55 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Just a thought:
> 
> 
> /etc/profile.d/tmpdir.sh:
> 
> # 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 exit.

Why not use /tmp/<username> instead?

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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