Subject: Re: per-user /tmp
To: None <tech-security@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
List: tech-security
Date: 02/03/2007 10:36:39
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Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>=20
> > Can $HOME be used?
> > It's already there (usually...) and doesn't need creating. I don't know
> > if our magic symlinks support that.
>=20
> I think it can be used, but keep in mind that sometimes people want to
> have /tmp on a tmpfs/mfs.

Not only.  HOME is frequently an NFS share.  You may not want to have
your temporary files on this share or be straining your network.

-Jan

--=20
Tradition is the illusion of permanence. -- Woody Allen

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