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[linux-security] Re: Towards a solution of tmp-file problems (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wim Vandeputte)
Fri Mar 13 07:37:11 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:58:28 +0100 (MET)
From: Wim Vandeputte <wvdputte@reptile.rug.ac.be>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <01IUKSJ70HB6000EGL@alpham.uni-mb.si>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
> How about creating a subdir in /tmp with 600 mode and
> creating tmp files there ?
This will not prevent users themselves from trying to muck around with
race conditions on their own tmp files... thus it's only half a solution...
not worth the hastle...
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Wim Vandeputte --Comfort is Treachery--
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