On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:03:27PM +0600, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:51:29PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > Having a printer spool in /tmp doesn't sound all that clever, so here's a > > > patch to change it to what seems to be the upstream recommendation.
> > > Do we need some samba-common.postinst magic to force this upgrade, or > > > should we just leave it? > > Where is the value in creating this directory at all, if you're just > > going to create it with the same perms as /tmp anyway? > I would say: "avoid the risk of filling the root partition" for setups > where users do not have a separate /tmp partition. Well, that's fair. What about /var/tmp then? :) I just don't like the idea of proliferating world-writable directories on the system, with or without the sticky bit. Many security auditing tools don't like it, either. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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