stuff under /tmp

[Waldo Bastian]

On Saturday 05 March 2005 20:21, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> now that head isn't frozen anymore, I'd like to discuss an issue that has
> bitten me (or rather my customers) for some time.
>
> For each user, KDE (and arts) create "kde-<username>",
> "ksocket-<username>", "mcop-<username>" under /tmp. Delete that user and
> re-create a user by the same name some time down the line with another UID.
> TADA! KDE doesn't work for that new user.

It should create a different directory in that case, see also 
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040811-1.txt

Cheers,
Waldo
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