Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (172 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <guido+opensuse.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Michael Foerster <foerster@xxxxxxxx> [2010-05-02 21:37]:
> Esp if login/profile scripts are modified to create a 'private' temp dir,
> like /dev/shm/$USER and propagate via
>
> export TMP=/dev/shm/$USER TEMP=$TMP TMPDIR=$TMP TEMPDIR=$TMP;
> mkdir -m 700 -p /dev/shm/$USER

Per-user tmpdirs are also a nice thing to have for security
reasons, there's even a pam module which takes care of securely
creating a unique per-user tmpdir on login, see
http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/pam-tmpdir

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Guido Berhoerster
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