Re: Insecure use of file in /tmp by trn

From: Todd C. Miller (Todd.Millerat_private)
Date: Mon Aug 30 1999 - 01:43:26 PDT

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    In message <Pine.BOO.4.04.9908281306590.2468-100000at_private>
    	so spake Shuman (shuman):
    
    > RedHat includes a mktemp too, its a package by itself. From the look of
    > the manpage, it seems to be based on the mktemp that comes with Debian,
    > just with one extra option. The option is "-d", which creates a unique
    > directory rather than a file.
    
    This is the OpenBSD mktemp(1), I know since I wrote it :-)
    RedHat 6.0 ships with an mktemp-1.5 rpm that corresponds to:
        $OpenBSD: mktemp.c,v 1.4 1997/06/20 04:17:42 millert Exp $
    The current OpenBSD mktemp.c (1.5) is identical with the exception
    of a slightly more relaxed copyright.  For some reason RedHat doesn't
    document the -d option in the main page though.  Just to clear up
    the confusion...
    
     - todd
    



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