On Mon, 02.04.12 16:55, Steve Grubb (sgrubb(a)redhat.com) wrote:
On Monday, April 02, 2012 03:58:12 PM Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > * #834 F18 Feature: /tmp on tmpfs -
> >
> >
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs (mitr, 17:40:06)
> > * AGREED: tmp-on-tmpfs is accepted (+5 -3) (mitr, 18:12:52)
>
> Actually I think this is a good feature, but ...
What about forensics? Any reboot erases information that might have been needed
to see what happened during a break in.
/tmp is already volatile and cleaned up in regular intervals. The new
clean-up on boot is just one tiny bit of additional clean-up.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.