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Re: Moving /tmp to a separate partition. Advice?



On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:38:48AM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote:

>   Setting the *directory* noexec seems very bad, since the exec bit
> on directories controls the ability to cd to it, and turning that
> off would make it largely useless. 

Just for the sake of argument *why* is setting /tmp rw- a bad thing?
Surely if you put a file there, you know the full pathname, why would
you need to list or search /tmp?

Cheers,
Tom

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