Re: "orbit-<username>" dir in /tmp
- From: jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>
- To: Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>
- Cc: Hema Seetharamaiah <hema seetharamaiah wipro com>,orbit <orbit-list gnome org>, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>,Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>, Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>
- Subject: Re: "orbit-<username>" dir in /tmp
- Date: 07 Jun 2002 12:14:56 -0400
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 07:44, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Jacob / Hema,
>
> [ Havoc, the problem is of people maliciously creating
> /tmp/orbit-$USER directories to disrupt local Unix Domain
> socket communications ].
>
> On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 18:56, jacob berkman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 09:20, Hema Seetharamaiah wrote:
> > > On Linux, this directory will stay across reboots until perhaps the user
> > > explicitly deletes it.
> >
> > (this is not actually the case - some linux distributions clean /tmp on
> > reboot so you can potentially see this problem on linux also)
>
> So - the problem exists; and I can see 2 possible solutions.
note that gnome-login-check is supposed to check for this...
- jacob
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