Per-user / per-service temporary directories eradicate a bunch of potential security issues related to race conditions, symlink attacks and exposure of sensitive information via insecure file permissions. Optionally, they can also be used to decrease tmpfs disk usage by removing temporary data following service termination.
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/192409/per-user-tmpfs-directories
- https://systemd.io/TEMPORARY_DIRECTORIES/
via kling:
perhaps we could even let you access the tmpdir of the current uid via a symlink e.g
/proc/usertmp
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