Package: libpam-tmpdir
Severity: wishlist

]] Petter Reinholdtsen 

> [Ben Hutchings]
> > We should be thinking about implementing per-user temporary directories
> > and making sure that programs respect $TMPDIR.
> 
> Yes, per-user temp directories is a good idea.  Installing the
> libpam-tmpdir package enable this by default, and beside some problems
> with the root user (bad TMPDIR is inherited when I restart services
> using /etc/init.d/ scripts), it work well.  Perhaps it should be
> extended to allow the directory to be below ~/ instead of below
> /tmp/. :)

Thanks for this suggestion, filing it in the BTS.

(JFTR, it won't be the default, but I don't see the harm in making it an
option.)

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are



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