enhance security via private TMP/TMPDIR by default
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu May 12 16:05:44 UTC 2005
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:03:28PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > # For privacy and security, set temporary directories to ~/tmp on local
> There's actually been some work going on on giving each user their
> own /tmp namespace via the kernel's CLONE_NEWNS capability and a PAM
> module, AIUI. To the system administrator this could appear
> as /tmp/<username>. I think the problem is in getting later mounts to
> actually appear in the cloned namespace.
Ooh, that's kinda cool. This is easier, though. :)
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