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Jeremiah Gowdy

Shared /tmp

The design decision to have a big shared /tmp that’s world writable (and assumed by many packages like installers to not be mounted +noexec) was a huge mistake. Applications that assume /tmp rather than using TMPDIR (standards) are awful. We should migrate the shared /tmp from world writable to group writable and have a particular group membership to be allowed to write to it for daemons that don’t have home directories until they can be fixed up to not need a shared /tmp.