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Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10012151231430.690-100000@mail.accessnw.net> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:35:43 -0800 Reply-To: Michael Damm <miked@ACCESSNW.NET> From: Michael Damm <miked@ACCESSNW.NET> X-To: Mark Delany <MarkD@BUSHWIRE.NET> To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM In-Reply-To: <20001214225127.625.qmail@geex.bushwire.net> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Mark Delany wrote: > I'm sure many people have been "guilty" of writing a quick and nasty > shell script that ends in something like: >/tmp/out.$$ I alwas was a difficult child. TMPKEY="$RANDOM" echo "foo" >/tmp/blah.$TMPKEY Easiest fix for most of these issues, works great in quick bash hacks on untrusted systems. Im sure your OS/Programming Language of choice has support for the latest in even semi random number generation. -Mike --- Michael Damm - System Administrator - Access Northwest, LLC - Yakima, WA Business: miked@accessnw.net - http://www.accessnw.net/ - (509) 542-3221 Personal: symetrix@symetrix.org - http://www.symetrix.org/ - (877) 534-6247
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