Bug#423658: gnome-screensaver: doesn't honour TMPDIR

[Piotr Kaczuba]

On 2007-05-27 22:28, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 20:10 +0200, Piotr Kaczuba wrote:
>> Gnome-screensaver doesn't honour the TMPDIR environment variable.
>> Instead of using the directory provided by TMPDIR (set by
>> libpam-tmpdir), it creates gconfd-$USER and orbit-$USER directly in
>> /tmp.
> 
> AFAIK, that's gconf and not gnome-screensaver. gconf already uses 
> g_get_tmp_dir so I think it should use TMPDIR if it's available.

IMHO, the reason is that TMPDIR is not on the list of allowed env vars 
in gs-job.c and gs-window-x11.c in gnome-screensaver. After the call to 
gdk_spawn_on_screen_with_pipes TMPDIR gets lost. I'm not sure if simply 
adding TMPDIR to the list would result in some security risks, though.

Piotr