On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:40 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to disable Private Tmp globally? I know I can disable it by copying all the affected unit files to /etc/systemd and removing it there but is there a way to disable it once and for all?

The reasons I want to disable it are: - I don't need it: this is a single user machine that sits behind a firewall and doesn't run any publicly available servers, so the security issues that private tmp solves are not important for this machine; - I want to know where the files are, and I especially do not want them in a tmpfs. According to the docs I was able to find, private tmp is implemented using "kernel namespace" but that tells me nothing about where the data is stored; - I want to be able to access those files for debugging purposes. For example, I have some custom Apache modules that dump debug information to files in /tmp and I need to be able to access them. However, I haven't found any way to access the private tmp of a service, even as root.

Thanks, Jerome -- mailto:jeberger@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeberger@jabber.fr

The files are in subdirectories. /tmp/systemd-private-XXXXXX is bound to /tmp, /var/tmp/systemd-private-XXXXXX is bound to /var/tmp.