openssh unix dev - Jul 2002 - [Bug 291] /tmp/ssh-xxxx socket directories clutter up /tmp

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------- Additional Comments From stevesk at pobox.com  2002-07-27 12:14 -------
/tmp is the most portable world-writable location.
as to hiding them with dot, i just don't see strong
justification for this.



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------- Additional Comments From simons+mindrot at cryp.to  2002-07-28 21:26
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Is there any strong justification for _not_ hiding them with a dot?
Or could you add a configure option (or run-time configure option) that
let's me change this without having to patch the source code?



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------- Additional Comments From mouring at eviladmin.org  2002-07-29 08:53
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Because you end up with worthless options and feature creep.  There are too 
many options as it is right now.



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------- Additional Comments From simons+mindrot at cryp.to  2002-07-29 18:21
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Changing the name of the /tmp/ssh-xxxx directory to /tmp/.ssh-xxx won't
require
any options to be added but it would still solve my problem ... somewhat. Would
you please consider doing that then?



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------- Additional Comments From markus at openbsd.org  2002-07-29 18:32 -------
why is it a problem if they are visible? they should be.
apart from this, changing the name might break existing
scripts.



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------- Additional Comments From simons+mindrot at cryp.to  2002-07-29 19:04
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Well, it is a problem because on a multi-user system there are _hundreds_ of
them. And it's not only hundreds of ssh-agent sockets, it's hundreds of
Emacs
server sockets, ORBit sockets, X11 sockets and so on and so forth. Once the
system has been up and running for a few weeks, you cannot possibly read the
output from a "ls /tmp" without getting a 23" screen first ...



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