/tmp permissions

[Jan Grant]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote:

> Today I read that /tmp always is "noexec".
> That should probably be on linux, because on my fbsd-6.1 box it's "rw"
> and that's it.
> 
> Question: should I change /tmp to "rw,noexec" to be safer?

Not necessaily, but you might want to consider adding "nosymfollow"

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