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

[Marc Haber]

block #373786 with #376165
# let's see whether this was the right way around.
thanks

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 04:24:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.

After investigating, it looks like start-stop-daemon was used over su
to avoid a syslog message from being written.

As there is still #376165 and it is unlikely to have this fixed for
etch, I'd like to locall work around this issue. Is there any way to
programmatically find out whether libpam-tmpdir is in use to have the
cron job fall back to su in this case?

Greetings
Marc

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