I was hoping to get others opinions and comments on the subject of CGIs writing to the /tmp directories.

We are currently setting up a server to specifically act as a CGI server for customers. Anyways, the concern came up today that users are able to write to the /tmp directory. Apparently, the company wants to discourage users from writing to the /tmp directory in concerns over partition space.

I was wondering what other people have done to address this issue. What I have thought of doing is having tmpwatch run from root's cron every hour to erase newly created files or mroe likely doing a straight erase of /tmp and /var/tmp, because of such scripts, like bulletin boards, that could be accessed constantly and would fail thru the cracks of tmpwatch.

On the desktop - MacOS X
In the server room - Linux
Windows? In the trash?

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