Using the shared
/tmp
directory is known to have lead to many security vulnerabilities when predictable filenames have been used. And randomly generated names aren't really nice looking.
I am thinking that maybe it would be better to use a per user temporary directory instead. Many applications will use the TMPDIR
environment variable in order to decide where temporary files goes.
On login I could simply set TMPDIR=/temp/$USER
where /temp
would then have to contain a directory for each user with that directory being writable to that user and nobody else.
But in that case I would still like /temp
to be a tmpfs
mountpoint, which means that the subdirectories would not exist after a reboot and need to be recreated somehow.
Is there any (de-facto) standard for how to create a tmpfs
with per user subdirectories? Or would I have to come up with my own non-standard tools to dynamically generate such directories?
Asked by kasperd
(3650 rep)
Mar 25, 2015, 12:18 PM
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