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Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn
From: joey () FINLANDIA INFODROM NORTH DE (Martin Schulze)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:24:17 +0200
Theo de Raadt wrote:
Funny how the man page does not say that this is derived from OpenBSD.
That's not correct! Ben was so kind not to quote the entire manpage but only its relevant paragraphs. I read a strange attitiude between your lines. Anyway, here is the end of that manpage: BUGS The BSD -d option, which uses mkdtemp(2), is not supported under Linux. SEE ALSO mkstemp(3), mktemp(3), tempfile(1) HISTORY The mktemp utility appeared in OpenBSD. BSD Experimental November, 20, 1996 2 So OpenBSD gets proper credits, no need to be annoyed. Regards, Joey
HISTORY The mktemp utility appeared in OpenBSD 2.1. OpenBSD 2.5 November 20, 1996 2
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Current thread:
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Rogier Wolff (Aug 22)
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Martin Schulze (Aug 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Richard Kettlewell (Aug 23)
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Ben Pfaff (Aug 24)
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Theo de Raadt (Aug 27)
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Martin Schulze (Aug 29)
- WU-FTPD Security Update Thomas Biege (Aug 29)
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Luca Berra (Aug 30)
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Shuman (Aug 28)
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Todd C. Miller (Aug 30)
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Rogier Wolff (Aug 28)
- Vixie Cron version 3.0pl1 vulnerable to root exploit Martin Schulze (Aug 28)
- Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn Theo de Raadt (Aug 27)