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[Eduardo Tongson <propolice AT gmail.com>]

> > 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). 

Not sgid and suid
It needs the sticky bit 
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                                                    Eduardo Tongson     
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