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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: creating backups in temporary directories |
Date: | Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:41:44 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Worse yet: creating backup files in /tmp would be a security hole: > some other user seeing you're currently editing /tmp/foo could create > a symlink /tmp/foo~ to some interesting place and then when you save your > file the backup could be placed at that interesting place chosen by > the attacker. > Is that equally true for any directory that others can write? Yes. Stefan
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