On Wed Nov 15, 2000 at 03:01:26PM +0100, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > Would it be possible to use the user's home directory somehow?
> I cannot see a way to do this. Also, users may be upset if unexpectedly
> something is written into their home directory. I might as well require
> the user to copy the entire directory to their home directory before
> carrying out the benchmark (then, at least, the user would know what
> happens).
Hmmm... yeah, I see your point there. That might not be the most
pleasant of surprises... =)
> > I don't think placing world-writable dirs in %{_localstatedir} is a good
> > idea. Or into /tmp/[package] or something like that?
>
> Of course I was thinking of
> %{_localstatedir}/[package]/[world-writable-dir].
>
> The reason was that AFAIK there are two world-writable directories
> on standard systems, /tmp and /var/tmp, both with permissions 1755,
> where the sticky bit excludes that users delete files.
That might be a good idea. You just have to make sure that wherever
you place the directory is somewhere accessable to all users.
> However, the best idea might be to install into a regular
> non-world-writable directory
> and make the output go to /tmp/[package]/something.
That would be my suggestion. Prevents tampering with the package
itself, but lets them get to the output.
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