Today I decided to install libpam-tmpdir on my machines. I have added the required line to /etc/pam.d/common-session. When I login via ssh, everything works as expected and TMP and TMPDIR are both set. However, when I login via gdm, only TMP is set.
I have also noticed that TMPDIR is unset in a number of places in /etc,
as can be seen here:
# grep -r TMPDIR . 2>&1 |grep -v ^Binary |grep -v such
./init.d/samba:unset TMPDIR
./init.d/cupsys:unset TMPDIR
./bash_completion.d/dpatch_edit_patch: local DPEP_SOURCEDIR DPEP_OUTDIR
DPEP_TMPDIR DPEP_ROOTCMD DPEP_NEWDESC DPEP_KEEPTEMP
./bash_completion.d/dpatch_edit_patch:
DPEP_DO_GETOPTION="DPEP_TMPDIR="
./bash_completion.d/dpatch_edit_patch: DPEP_TMPDIR="$(printf "%s"
"$arg" | cut -f2- -d= )"
./rc0.d/K19samba:unset TMPDIR
./rc0.d/K20cupsys:unset TMPDIR
./rc1.d/K19samba:unset TMPDIR
./rc1.d/K20cupsys:unset TMPDIR
./rc2.d/S20samba:unset TMPDIR
./rc2.d/S20cupsys:unset TMPDIR
./rc3.d/S20samba:unset TMPDIR
./rc3.d/S20cupsys:unset TMPDIR
./rc4.d/S20samba:unset TMPDIR
./rc4.d/S20cupsys:unset TMPDIR
./rc5.d/S20samba:unset TMPDIR
./rc5.d/S20cupsys:unset TMPDIR
./rc6.d/K19samba:unset TMPDIR
./rc6.d/K20cupsys:unset TMPDIR
./X11/Xsession: if ! ln -sf "$ERRFILE" "${TMPDIR:=/tmp}/xsession-$USER"; then
./X11/Xsession: message "warning: unable to symlink
\"$TMPDIR/xsession-$USER\" to" \
./X11/Xsession: "\"$TMPDIR/xsession-$USER\"."
I am not sure if any of these occurences might impact a users
environment (I really can't see how any of them could, except for maybe
the Xsession script). But apparently one of them is.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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