On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Steve Clark <scl...@netwolves.com> wrote:
> On 04/02/2012 05:30 PM, M A Young wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>
> On Mon, 02.04.12 16:55, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> there is a big difference however with files in /tmp being around for 30
> days, and the files being cleaned on a reboot, which might be necessary to
> get the system in a reliable enough state to do any forensics.
>
> This also means a big change in user experience as many will be expecting
> things in /tmp to remain there for a while before being deleted even if
> the system is restarted or crashes.
>
>       Michael Young
>
> I agree why does this have to be forced on everyone. Admins have the ability
> to do this now if they
> want to.

It's a default, not mandatory, admins will still be able to turn it off.

-J

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