Re: about /dev/shm?

The shm is used by tmpfs .. and various applications like apache,
samba which have shared memory segments .. If I am not mistaken in the
2.4 or 2.6 they were changed in the kernel to 1777 ..

./thanks
ilaiy


On 4/15/06, Monty Ree <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> As you know, /dev/shm is 1777 and attackers used to write his backdoors at
> that directory.
> So I have saw the partition for some time and I can't see any creation of
> the files.
> So I changed this permission to 755, and there was no problem.
>
> 1. What's the role of the /dev/shm?
>    shm means shared memory?
>
> 2. Why this directory must be 1777?
>    Is there any problem when I change the permission to like 755?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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