Sven Dowideit wrote:
> neat summary Joey :)
> 
> The reason that I made it world writeable, is that twiki cgi's can be
> run from the command line by anyone, and in doing so, create a session
> file.
> 
> This is used by cronjobs, and so that users can script additions to
> topics etc. 

Makeing the temporary directory mode 1777 would not prevent that, but
would prevent users from deleting and replacing twiki temp files.

That and making the opens use O_EXCL, would cover the security issues I
mentioned.

-- 
see shy jo

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