Re: another /tmp race: `perl -e' opens temp file not safely
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@CVS.OPENBSD.ORG)
Sat, 07 Mar 1998 23:44:18 -0700
> All this complexity of trivial things (just open a temp file) is one
> of the reasons I think the whole idea of /tmp is a fundamental
> misdesign and eventually one should be able to chmod it to 755 (while
> programs should use per-user TMPDIRs).
Which, as I've said before, works REALLY well for setuid programs.
Imagine:
TMPDIR=/
Or how would you solve that problem?