James Carlson wrote: > Casper.Dik at Sun.COM writes: >> Unfortunately the use of TMPDIR is inherited across "su" and >> then, when users assume roles, TMPDIR no longer works. > > That point would seem to be a show-stopper to me. Having an RBAC role > fail to work because $TMPDIR is now set (when it wasn't before) and > owned by the original user would be an incompatible change and clearly > a Bad Thing. > > I've been staying out of this particular issue until now, as I could > see both sides of it. But it looks now like the weight of evidence is > against the proposal: not just RBAC damage, but also unnecessary > *extra* clutter in /tmp (due to the one-per-user directories, even if > no temp files are used), but also the fact that admins can already set
On a system with more than one user who uses GNOME you will actually reduce the number of directories in /tmp if $TMPDIR is /tmp/$LOGNAME rather than increase them. -- Darren J Moffat
