enhance security via private TMP/TMPDIR by default

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Thu May 12 16:19:38 UTC 2005


Colin Walters wrote:

>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
>>    
>>
>
>There's actually been some work going on on giving each user their
>own /tmp namespace via the kernel's CLONE_NEWNS capability and a PAM
>module, AIUI.  To the system administrator this could appear
>as /tmp/<username>.  I think the problem is in getting later mounts to
>actually appear in the cloned namespace.
>
>  
>
We probably should be putting out such information on a roadmap page for 
Fedora instead of waiting for related topics to pop out. If we cant get 
a general roadmap out, we can probably look at short term goals for 
every Fedora version in a wiki. will this work out?

regards
Rahul





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