Hubert Chan wrote: > Another potential problem is if a run a suid (non-root) program that > attempts to create a file in $TMP. But it's suid, so it doesn't run > under my uid, and doesn't have permissions to write to $TMP. But I've > never run across that -- suid programs are pretty uncommon. I don't use pam_tmpdir, but all my user accounts do have their own ~/tmp directories and I use $TMP (and TMPDIR) to make programs use them. One problem I have experienced is that if I manually start cups via its init script, as root, the cups daemon ends up running as a less privliged user that cannot write to /root/tmp, and the failure mode is quite horrible (silent failure to print anything). -- see shy jo
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