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From: "Jack McKinney" <jackmc-linux-lvm@lorentz.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:32:07 -0500
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LILO configuration for LVM "boot" filesystem
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Big Brother tells me that Jens Benecke wrote:
> >     After installation, do:
> > cd / ; mv tmp tmp.old ; ln -s /var/tmp .  reboot rm -rf /tmp.old
> >     Now you don't have to worry about root filling up at all...
>=20
> er... I wouldn't do that (at least not on a Debian system).=20
>=20
> Usually /var/tmp is _assumed_ to be only root-writeable, so all sorts of
> daemons and programs running as root put their stuff there. This could op=
en
> a number of security holes, when /var/tmp doesn't get treated as carefully
> as /tmp.

    Hmmm... I run Debian, and /var/tmp is certainly world-writable:

drwxrwxrwt    7 root     root         2048 Jun  7 07:56 /var/tmp


    It has been this way on every Debian system I have installed...

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