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Re: per-user temp directories by default?



On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:16:31PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
> What do the security people mean with per-user temp directories?  It's
> clear that $HOME/tmp would be bad, but /tmp/$USERNAME/ with proper
> permissions doesn't sound so awkward.

Sorry for not being more clear.  The default (only?) behavior of
libpam_tmpdir is to set $TMP and $TMPDIR to /tmp/user/$UID.

noah

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