Can we promote pam-tmpdir to main instead of universe for 13.04? It seems to work pretty well now, and so I recommend activating it by default early in the development cycle. Very early. Like first change early: pam-tmpdir is part of the base system default install.
The rationale for this is pam-tmpdir makes changes to $TMP and $TMPDIR which affect application behavior. Non-conforming applications will dump their temp files into /tmp anyway; conforming applications using $TMP or $TMPDIR will put them in a user-specific directory. SOME applications may break--they shouldn't, but GDM broke in 2004 so I could see things breaking. Applications ceasing to function is what I'm interested in. Anything that's built and tested that fails to run properly under pam-tmpdir. pam-tmpdir creates a root-owned directory /tmp/users with permissions o=--x. Upon log-on, pam creates a directory /tmp/users/$UID/ owned by the user and with permissions 700. That becomes $TMP and $TMPDIR, and so most applications put their temporary files there. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
