On 04/02/2012 05:30 PM, M A Young wrote:
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mon, 02.04.12 16:55, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote:
What about forensics? Any reboot erases information that might have been needed
to see what happened during a break in.
/tmp is already volatile and cleaned up in regular intervals. The new
clean-up on boot is just one tiny bit of additional clean-up.
there is a big difference however with files in /tmp being around for 30
days, and the files being cleaned on a reboot, which might be necessary to
get the system in a reliable enough state to do any forensics.
This also means a big change in user experience as many will be expecting
things in /tmp to remain there for a while before being deleted even if
the system is restarted or crashes.
Michael Young
I agree why does this have to be forced on everyone. Admins have the ability to
do this now if they
want to.
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