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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> Brian (and everyone, for that matter),
>
> I configured ORBit to use Unix sockets as you said to do. A pleasant side
> effect of this is that GNOME seems to be faster.
>
> An unpleasant side effect is that ORBit is now placing sockets in /tmp,
> which looks like it may be vulnerable to a symlink attack. Anyone have any
> idea about this?
>
> ...Shouldn't the sockets just be in the user's home directory?
Technically, they should be put wherever $TMPDIR says to, but
very few people use that, on either end (user or programmer). It might be
a good idea to put them in a subdirectory owned by the user, say
/tmp/.${USER}/ORBit, or, like you say in their home directory, say
~/.orbit.
Nathan Paul Simons
http://www.nmt.edu/~npsimons/
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