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

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@hardware.no>]

* Nick Bannon 

| On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:52:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
| > Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de> wrote:
| > > If you default to ~/tmp/   or ~/.temp/   or something like this, you get the
| > > hashing for free, and you only need quota on the home partition.
| > 
| > It was pointed out already that this is not necessarily a good idea,
| > e.g.  when /home is on NFS.
| 
| When /home is on NFS, then ~/tmp is not optimal, but it's still a
| reasonable and secure default.

ATM, TMPDIR is defined using #define in libpam-tmpdir's source.
Patches for having that as a run-time configuration are accepted.

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