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Re: cleaning up /var/tmp



Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:

> These two problems are addressed by the Debian way of doing things:
>   find . -type f -atime +3 -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f --
>   find . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -print0 | xargs -r0 rmdir
> 
> Because we never follow symlinks, but only real files and real directories.

That can still be exploited because the real files and directories can
be replaced with symlinks.

See http://www.ultratech.net/~zblaxell/find-rm-fix.txt for a complete
analysis and a fix.


Guy


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