Subject: Re: per-user /tmp
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-security
Date: 02/04/2007 11:32:41
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>>>>> "Steven" == Steven M Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
    >> christos suggested we can make the code in login(1) a bit
    >> smarter: it would readlink("/tmp") and if it's a symlink, it
    >> would take the componenet of the link target up to "@uid" (say,
    >> "/private/tmp", in the case of "/private/tmp/@uid") and create
    >> the private temp dir there.
    >> 

    Steven> Maybe we can think a bit more ambitiously about this, and
    Steven> have per-process mounted file systems, similar to Plan 9's.

  "better is the enemy of good enough"

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