curious -- what's /tmp/fam-root ?
Just curious; what's the purpose of /tmp/fam-root, and what is written there? Is it simply where the os writes stuff which is sensitive, and putting it in a rwx-- directory avoids potential security issues regarding file access? or is there more to it than that? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: curious -- what's /tmp/fam-root ?
Gary Aitken freebsd at dreamchaser.org writes: Just curious; what's the purpose of /tmp/fam-root, and what is written there? Is it simply where the os writes stuff which is sensitive, and putting it in a rwx-- directory avoids potential security issues regarding file access? or is there more to it than that? # procstat -af |grep -i fam 23038 polkitd12 s - rw--- 1 0 UDS /tmp/fam-root/fam- 23040 gam_server 4 s - rw--- 1 0 UDS /tmp/fam-root/fam- 23040 gam_server 7 s - rw--- 1 0 UDS /tmp/fam-root/fam- 26654 thunar 7 s - rw--- 1 0 UDS /tmp/fam-jb/fam- ... # file /tmp/fam-root/fam- /tmp/fam-root/fam-: socket jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: curious -- what's /tmp/fam-root ?
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:22:06 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: Just curious; what's the purpose of /tmp/fam-root, and what is written there? Is it simply where the os writes stuff which is sensitive, and putting it in a rwx-- directory avoids potential security issues regarding file access? or is there more to it than that? I think this is part of FAM - file alternation monitor, and the particular directory is for root, that's why it is user-protected. I'm not sure if this is part of the OS, cf. port gio-fam-backend (belongs to GIO, which probably belongs to something else that is then required by again something else...). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
