"Martijn van Oosterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:29 PM, "Marc Schütz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I wanted to call it Z_X_Y to make it easy for somebody trying to debug
>>> things to find the data.
>>
>> You have to be careful if you use fixed or predictable names in /tmp to 
>> avoid symlink attacks.
>
> So don't use /tmp but some other directory that doesn't have
> world-write permissions. Enfore that and you don't need to worry about
> the names.

You can also set the working folder's permissions to 700 and nobody
can put a symlink inside.

Matthias

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