[Kde-kiosk] KDE Temp Files in /tmp

Chris Fanning christopher.fanning at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 11:22:10 CET 2005


Hi Murray,

Did you have any luck with that?

Thanks.
Chris.

On 11/9/05, Murray Trainer <mtrainer at central-data.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to further tighten the security in our KDE Kiosk mode
> environment.  One issue of concern was user files/dirs lying around in
> /tmp that other users can see.  I know most of them are secured by their
> ownership and permissions but I don't even want users to know other
> users login ID's.  We are using NFS mounted home directories.  I have
> set the following variables to make Gnome and KDE files reside in user's
> local tmp directories:
>
> # Set KDE and Gnome temp vars to user tmp dir
> export TMPDIR=~/tmp
> export KDETMP=~/tmp
> export KDEVARTMP=~/tmp
>
> The above works fine.  I am still getting mcop-userid directories in
> /tmp.  Is there a variable that I can set to make this directory get
> stored under the user's home directory?
>
> Thanks
>
> Murray
>
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