[2116] in bugtraq
personalized /tmp (was: BUGTRAQ ALERT: Solarix 2.x vulnerability)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_K=F6nig?=)
Wed Aug 16 16:05:06 1995
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 21:46:39 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <199508161903.MAA08827@shell1.best.com> from "Patrick Hess" at
Aug 16, 95 12:03:52 pm
>Ya know, if /tmp isn't world writeable doesn't that defeat the purpose of
>having a /tmp at all?
It should be possible to have a temporary directory for each user,
such as /tmp/username (or any other place you care to put it).
This would fix a great many problems, and apart from UNIX tradition,
I see no reason against it.
--
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.
