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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-31 13:48:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-31 13:48:45 +0000 |
| commit | b2b23189a6e87ef8e3bbd5dfc9cc93945580dd22 (patch) | |
| tree | b90bb9218fa5da04d9cda32bcf197949c623ae00 | |
| parent | dbee9b149ac143fc33209cc9a3b4bb7c236d9d40 (diff) | |
| download | perl-b2b23189a6e87ef8e3bbd5dfc9cc93945580dd22.tar.gz | |
Clarify the third case of ftmp-security warnings.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6942
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1785,9 +1785,10 @@ doesn't use it on its /tmp directory as shipped. Also as with the permissions, some local policy might dictate that the stickiness is not used. -(3) If any of the parent directories of the temporary file back to the -root directory of the are 'unsafe', using the definitions given above -in (1) and (2). +(3) If the system supports the POSIX 'chown giveaway' feature and if +any of the parent directories of the temporary file back to the root +directory are 'unsafe', using the definitions given above in (1) and +(2). See the documentation for the File::Temp module for more information about the various security aspects. |