Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > Probably not going to happen. I read somewhere that if users are > allowed to reap /tmp anytime at will, a malicious user can exploit > some race condition in tmp file creation to do privilege > escalation. > > Could you dig up the article? I can't see any reasons why it wouldn't > be utterly trivial to make such a program totally abuse safe. > I am not going to pretend I know anything about computer security. However, the first rule that I obey is: "Do not make anything suid root unless absolutly necessary!" Derek
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