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



On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:27:04PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> Oddly, it doesn't seem to set the environment variables properly when using
> "su", though it seems to be creating the correct directories.  But neither
> does pam_env.so (anyone know why?).

Half-assed PAMification.

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202840

Also:

- sudo has the same problem (and other PAM issues).

- ld.so silently clears TMPDIR for setuid programs.  This isn't a
  hole in typical scenarios, but I'm sure there's some atypical one.

Andrew



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