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From: "Kevin N. Carpenter" <kevinc@seaplace.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] /var/tmp world rwx?
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 16:42:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1611D7.5020400@seaplace.org> (raw)

I've been playing around with using tmpfs for /tmp and had it mounted 
with my standard "noexec,nodev,nosuid" anti-hack security options.  This 
works fine for VI or other normal tools.

I wanted Portage to use it as well, to symbolically linked /var/tmp to /tmp.

That broke emerge.  The "noexec" option prevents any builds from 
working.  That made me check one of my unmodified gentoo systems where I 
spotted that /var/tmp was world read/execute.  That's a security problem.

Any reason that /var/tmp can't be root read/execute only?

Kevin C.


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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-03 22:42 Kevin N. Carpenter [this message]
2003-01-03 22:50 ` [gentoo-dev] /var/tmp world rwx? Paul de Vrieze
2003-01-03 23:04   ` Kevin N. Carpenter
2003-01-04  9:23 ` Sven Vermeulen

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