enhance security via private TMP/TMPDIR by default
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu May 12 16:04:28 UTC 2005
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:59:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > # For privacy and security, set temporary directories to ~/tmp on local
> > # filesystems -- but for network filesystems, make up one in /tmp.
> > # The trap statement cleans up the temporary directory if it's empty on
> Why not use /tmp/<username> instead?
Because avoiding using predictable filenames is one of the advantages.
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