Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:14:19 +0100 From: Oliver Leitner <Shadow333@gmx.at> To: Chad Morland <cmorland@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp on same partition as / Message-ID: <20050211211950.200B643D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <8ca932905021112136ad00369@mail.gmail.com> References: <8ca932905021112136ad00369@mail.gmail.com>
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well, its ok to have /tmp on the same partition as /, as long as other security measurements work, for example a tripwire setup and logging user actions of any kind, also having an overview over the logs. as long as these work, and you take care whats going on on the box, it does not really matter where /tmp resides. On Friday 11 February 2005 21:13, Chad Morland wrote: > I'm setting up a mail server at the momment, one of the things that I > forgot to do was create /tmp as a separate partiton (/ = 2gb). There > will be no user logins to the machine aside from admins and the only > thing that it will run is qmail acting as a smarthost (vanilla qmail, > no amavis or anything of the sort.) > > In your opinion is having /tmp on the same partition as / really THAT > bad in this case? I'm just wondering cause some people have mentioned > that its a major security risk. Really, I don't think it is for what > this box is doing. > > -CM > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- By reading this mail you agree to the following: using or giving out the email address and any other info of the author of this email is strictly forbidden. By acting against this agreement the author of this mail will take possible legal actions against the abuse.
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