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Bugtraq archives for 3rd quarter (Jul-Aug) 1995: personalized /tmp (was: BUGTRAQ ALERT: Solarix 2.x vulnerability)

personalized /tmp (was: BUGTRAQ ALERT: Solarix 2.x vulnerability)

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Wed, 16 Aug 1995 21:46:39 +0200 

>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.
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