[debian-mysql] Bug#1023778: TMPDIR behaviour in maintainer scripts [was: Re: Bug#1023778: mysql-server-8.0: fails to restart on upgrade with libpam-tmpdir]

[Marco d'Itri]

On Nov 13, Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> This seems inconsistent to me. Where is the expectation that TMPDIR must
> be unset if dropping privileges coming from? Obviously for users of
Where is the expectation that $TMPDIR is writable by any user but the 
current one?
I do not believe that it is expected that if a user creates a directory 
and points $TMPDIR to it then they also have to make it sticky, so this 
has nothing to do with libpam-tmpdir.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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