On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 02:22:01PM +0200, Peter Smith wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors > <timo.lindf...@iki.fi> wrote: > > Peter Smith <peter.smith3882...@gmail.com> writes: > >> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=1777 0 0 > > > > noexec /tmp will surely break applications, no? > > So far no applications have been malfunction as a result of the noexec > flag on /tmp, but i guess that i could change it to exec just to be > sure that problems do not suddenly arise. > I've read somewhere that apt breaks if /tmp is noexec. I haven't tried it myself, though.
> >> Iceweasel is modified to use /tmp as cache, so when Iceweasel is > >> loaded after a reboot it creates a folder named Cache in /tmp. > > > > How does this work with multiple users in a safe way? > > Good point, but in my case it won't be a problem as i am the only user > of the system. What if a security problem was found in Iceweasel, > would it be worse that the cache is placed in /tmp instead of the home > folder? > I would think this is ok, as long as the Cache folder gets the appropriate permissions (700, I would think is appropriate). -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100924204557.gc31...@aurora.owens.net
