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Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?



Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> - in the meantime, tmpreaper cleans up /tmp/bob 

Just FWIW, but a multiuser system that is running tmpreaper is insecure.
The bugs apparantly cannot be fixed, but I can write up an exploit if
you pay me. :-)

Directory size matters less and less anyway, modern fileystems use
btrees, and this includes ext3 with -O dir_index. Not default yet,
apparently.

-- 
see shy jo

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