On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 06:50:26PM -0800, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:35:07PM +0100, Francesco de Virgilio wrote: > > - Ubuntu 10.10 > > - /home encrypted with ecryptfs > > - /tmp is a directory clearly readable by anyone having access to my hard > > disk > > > > Question: when I decrypt a message sent to me using GPG, is it > > immediately printed on the standard output (my shell) or is a _decrypted_ > > copy created in /tmp and deleted after closing the message? > > You could try setting $TMP or $TMPDIR (which mutt may or may not > respect) to a directory like $HOME/tmp, which is already encrypted.
There's also. for .muttrc:
set tmpdir=~/tmp # where to store temp files
At least I have that, it works, and mutt doesn't bitch at start time
about unknown config.
In general I think it's a good idea to set TMP and TMPDIR to ~/tmp
anyway. If you have a GOOD reason to want to have such on actual /tmp
(faster local disk instead of NFS disk?) then I'd recommend some shell
startup scripting to attempt to make /tmp/<user>/, and set TMPDIR to
that, bitching if it can't ensure it exists, is owned by you, and chmod
700.
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