get rid of tmp directories?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:49:15PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Do you know of anyone who runs systems without any world-writable tmp
> directories?
> 
> It seems like it is not needed. Some programs will honor TMP variable and
> other programs may let you define where your tmp directory is at. So each
> user and each program could have their own directories that are owned and
> only writable by their own uid.

TMPDIR is the canonical name for it..but not everything honours it.

Kris
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/attachments/20041012/f83d63d3/attachment.bin