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[Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT UNOB.CZ>]

> > > 7) /tmp has the suid bit set, which means that sorcery gets all funny,
> > > and dies when you try to do a system-update or upgrade or whatever... 
> > > cleanse has a cow too, but can't seem to fix the suid bit set on the
> > > /tmp directory.  chmod -s /tmp fixes this issue...
> > >      
> > ? /tmp, as well as /var/tmp needs to have the suid and sgid bits. 
> > Otherwise, user A will be able to create and user B will be able to 
> > delete (he is not the owner of the file, but he has write permissions in 
> > the directory). What sorcery errors are reported?
> >    
>
> Actually that's not possible either with or without suid bit on the
> directory unless the file is group writable and both users have the same
> group.
Not s-bits but t-bit. Permission of /tmp directory should be drwxrwxrwt.
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