On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:46 -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 01:02, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > There also some few commands (ib*.pl) that are using a file > > > > /tmp/ibnetdiscover.topology. I suggest > > > > /var/cache/ibnetdiscover.topology > > > > > > I'm not sure about this one. I need to think about this more. > > > > Not sure about the best placement, but surely a predictable name > > in a world-writeable directory is a security risk?
I've seen a number of user tools place cache files/temporary files to the user's home directory. For example: ~/.ofed/ibnetdiscover.topology It should protect against the world readable/writeable issues I think. Just a thought. Al > Is /var/cache world writeable ? I thought it was just world readable. If > this were to be done, I would think the opensm directory underneath this > would be more appropriate but I'm not leaning towards doing this since I > think the current approach is more flexible and the topology can be > supplied to all needed commands/scripts. > > -- Hal > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general -- Albert Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 925-422-5311 Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
