Talk:Filesystem/Security

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/var/tmp

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 It deserves its own listing because (by default) Portage uses this location as a build directory for packages.

/var/tmp is getting noexec mount option more and more often due to many security hardening guidelines thus breaking portage ebuild effort.

To move its ebuild area over to something like /var/portage, I set mine to PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/portage". Egberts (talk)