> > Does anyone know why my Mandrake 7.2 /etc/skel directory has an empty subdirectory
>in it
> > called "tmp"?
>
> I know that vim uses ~/tmp to store backup files. That's the only one
> that I know of for certain. I'm not a vim guru, but I imagine you could
> override that in your .vimrc. I'm just too lazy to look right now!
I strongly suggest you leave it alone, for security reasons.
By default Mandrake now sets $TMP and $TMPDIR to point to a user's
own ~/tmp directory to improve security. There have been many cases
of programs and scripts being compromised by the use of temporary
files in /tmp with wrong permissions, or symlink attacks.
Every program/script that needs to create temporary *should* be checking,
and using, the values in $TMP or $TMPDIR.
Thanks... Dan.
