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Message-ID: <20110324112401.GA12410@sikorka.supermedia.pl>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:24:01 +0100
From: Piotr Meyer <aniou@...tek.pl>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: absolute symlinks
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:19:27AM +0300, gremlin@...mlin.ru wrote:
> Link Points to Should point to
>
> /usr/tmp /tmp ../tmp
> /var/tmp /tmp ../tmp
FHS suggests that files in /tmp shouldn't be preserved between reboots,
in opposition to /var/tmp/. In different systems this approach varies:
- in RHEL5 /tmp and /var/tmp are separated. Both are cleaned daily from
cron, files in /tmp are deleted after 240 hours, files from /var/tmp:
after 720 hours
- in Debian and Ubuntu /tmp and /var/tmp are separated, /tmp is cleaned
at boot according to TMPTIME variable (0 means 'everything'), /var/tmp
is preserved
- in NetBSD (ok, this isn't linux distro, but IMVHO sometimes is worth to
know, how things are made in other places) /tmp is often mounted as
small memory-based filesystem and /var/tmp is located in local fs.
/tmp isn't preserved between reboots (files from memory fs are lost
after unmounting /tmp). /var/tmp isn't cleaned "due to possible race
condition attack based on symlinks"
Personally I prefer some variant of latest approach (tmpfs for /tmp).
Size doesn't matter because if someone needs large temporary space then
always TMP/TMPDIR/TEMPDIR=${HOME}/tmp may be used (been there, done
that).
With /var/tmp I'm not sure. From one side symlink to /var/tmp is fine
(IMO ordinary users shouldn't preserve temporary files between reboots
outside their's home directories) but, from other side, when root needs
something big to be preserved (and / is relatively small)?
Maybe (yes, it's small revolution and it breaks standard behaviour): /tmp
as tmpfs, /var/tmp as root-only-writeable directory (chmod 700)?
--
Piotr 'aniou' Meyer
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