On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:52:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you default to ~/tmp/ or ~/.temp/ or something like this, you get the > > hashing for free, and you only need quota on the home partition. > > It was pointed out already that this is not necessarily a good idea, > e.g. when /home is on NFS.
When /home is on NFS, then ~/tmp is not optimal, but it's still a reasonable and secure default. > Additionally you cannot run tmpreaper on > ~/tmp/ without starting a big information campain, "everthing under ~/ > was always sacred." > cu andreas If you turn on quotas on /home then there's less need to run tmpreaper. (Less need to run as root, anyway - perhaps a user will find it a convenient tool to clean up ~/tmp) Nick. -- Nick Bannon | "I made this letter longer than usual because [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal
