Theres all kinds of stuff that goes in /tmp when vmware runs... like nvram settings for example. I have tried a few symlink style attacks but vmware seems to check before writing in most cases. I can However see your license info being something "sensitive" that you wouldn't want to share. -KF starman jones wrote: > > oi oi.. i recently installed vmware (the latest release of the workstation > thing) and it crashed once or twice. But never mind that. in /tmp i found > a file called vmware-log.starman. starman being my user on the box. Inside > in this file is my license information and it's chmod is 777. That's kinda > nasty don't ya think? has anyone seen similar things? > lates > sj
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