Re: enhance security via private TMP/TMPDIR by default

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:15:45PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> Yeah, that's better than just blindly using ~/tmp/.  But why have the
> extra complexity?  Why not always do mktemp and the bind+namespace
> magic?  This does have some advantage -- all users' tmp dirs are created
> the way the admin intended when he set the system up, and they're easy
> to find if he needs to look for them, for whatever reason.

Well, at this point, the bind+namespace magic is more complex. But it seems
sufficiently promising that it's probably worth waiting until it's solid
before implementing anything.

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