Agreed, but I was wondering if it was a permission issue…. Also remember while /tmp is world write-able, it does have a sticky bit set… so it’s a bit different that just plain 777.
________________________________ John T. Chung Technical Architect +1.419.464.9637 | Office +1.419.973.9072 | Mobile Nyquest Consulting http://www.nyquest.com <http://www.nyquest.com/> > On Mar 29, 2020, at 10:56 PM, Dave Horsfall <d...@horsfall.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> My understanding is that placing the mysql socket in /tmp is insecure, which >> is why that has not been what MacPorts does for many, many years, and why >> the above change should not be made. > > Putting critical files into a world-writable directory is generally a bad > idea at the best of times. > > -- Dave
