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# These settings eliminate an entire class of security vulnerability:
# time-of-check-time-of-use cross-privilege attacks using guessable
# filenames (generally seen as "/tmp file race" vulnerabilities).
fs.protected_hardlinks = 1
fs.protected_symlinks = 1