Bug 291211 – Handbook can mention mount --bind /tmp /tmp et al

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org

[Description Alexey Dobriyan 2009-10-30 18:56:24 UTC]

Installation handbook or Hardening doc can mention "mount --bind /tmp /tmp"
as the cheapest way of preventing hardlinking from /tmp if it isn't a separate
filesystem already.

I use
mount --bind /tmp /tmp
mount --bind /var/tmp /var/tmp

and in /etc/fstab :

/tmp            /tmp            none    bind
/var/tmp        /var/tmp        none    bind

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) 2009-11-30 07:30:12 UTC]

No real need for this, not for the vast majority of users.