Re: Proposing Fedora Feature for private /tmp and /var/tmp for all systemd services in Fedora 17.

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On Mon, 07.11.11 15:25, Chris Adams (cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Once upon a time, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > I think this is a question for lennart, I am not sure how he sets them
> > up.  If I was setting them up, I would probably set them up by default
> > under /run/SERVICE/tmp and bind mount over /tmp or something like
> > that.  And I would figure the root user could see them.  If he is only
> > mounting as tmpfs then I don't think the admin could easily get into
> > the namespaces to see them.
> 
> I would be against something that hides stuff from root.  That's a
> recipie for disaster.

Yes, I agree.

By placing the private /tmp dirs beneath the real /tmp we tried to make
sure that the private /tmp for the services are visible to the admin
inside /tmp, are subject to automatic /tmp cleaning and are attributed
to the quota settings the admin might have set on /tmp.

Lennart

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