Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: >>> Since I do this myself in my own .profile I feel duty bound to stand up >>> to the plate and by your sponsor for this. So sign me up for putback >>> sponsor and I'll be ARC case submitter too. >>> >> Good idea (I use this myself :-)). Should the directory be created >> 700 by default? > > There's a risk in setting $TMPDIR and making it mode 700; the risk > is that programs started under a different uid may start to fail.
pkgadd is one of those programs. > But it should either by mode 1777 (to mitigate that risk) or 700 > for privacy. Or honour the umask ? -- Darren J Moffat
