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Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Mar 2002 11:20:00 +0100 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
|> If /var/games is treated just like /tmp, meaning anyone can create a
|> file in it, then it will raise the same security issues as /tmp. We
|> could perhaps use the code that Al Petrovsky sent, if that is correct.
The convention for /var/games is that it is writable for a special group
(game) only, and any program wanting to have access to it must be setgid
game.
Andreas.
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- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, (continued)
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/03
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Al Petrofsky, 2002/03/03
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/03
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/04
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Al Petrofsky, 2002/03/04
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Al Petrofsky, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/04
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/04
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/06
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/06
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/06
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/03/07
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/08
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/08
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/10