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

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Tue Jul 4 14:24:33 UTC 2006


On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:41:47PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Marc Haber 
> | >It's probably not a security problem, though, as in it'll still be
> | >better than using /tmp as $TMP{,DIR}.
> | 
> | Is there any better possibility to solve the issue at hand?
> 
> Using su - instead of --chuid, might work.  It's not pretty, though.

Ok. So I need to first learn why start-stop-daemon was used here in
the first place.

Greetings
Marc

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