Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:45:17 +0200 (CEST) | From | Tomasz Kłoczko <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 grundig@teleline.es wrote:
> El Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:23:30 +0100, > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> escribió: > >> there are a lot of legacy apps that no-one wants to modify to get them >> to create/read /tmp/x-windows/.X11-unix. > > What's the point of caring about security for a legacy app if nobody > is going to fix it if a security problema arises? > > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/libpam-tmpdir > > is good enought IMO
BTW. Also it will be good say something about storing unix sockets by system programs (/tmp/x-windows/.X11-unix which is owned by root.root) in /tmp.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#REQUIREMENTS14 says about /var/run: "System programs that maintain transient UNIX-domain sockets must place them in this directory."
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