Re: Tired of /tmp? Here's a proposed solution

[hamors () litterbox org (Sean B. Hamor)]

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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Thomas Koenig wrote:

# >Well, this is a good quick hack. What about removing the CONCEPT of
# >public writable filesystems like /tmp.
#
# Agree 100%.
#
# The best solution would be, IMHO, to give each user his or her
# personal temporary directory, under /tmp/username, mode 700.
# /tmp can stay 1777 for stuff like make files accessible to other
# users.

How about using a method similar to the way SCREEN handles TEMP files?
Obviously allow users to save files in /tmp/ that would blow their quota,
but as far as software created TEMP files, create or use a 700 directory in
/tmp/ similar to this:

hamors (4 13:29) system:/tmp/screens> ls -al
total 6
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     bin           512 Aug 28 05:42 .
drwxrwxrwt   3 bin      bin           512 Aug 28 13:28 ..
drwx------   2 someone  1000          512 Aug 28 05:42 S-someone

I'm not sure how this would be globally implemented, though...

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