Bug#373786: /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base should unset TMPDIR

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at err.no
Mon Jul 3 09:02:57 UTC 2006


* Marc Haber 

| One would have to chown 701 /tmp/user/0. Would that open a too big
| security hole in your opinion?

I'd be somewhat unconfortable with it -- the point of pam-tmpdir is to
have a completely private $TMP.  It's probably not a security problem,
though, as in it'll still be better than using /tmp as $TMP{,DIR}.

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