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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

It's wasn't the sticky bit. /tmp has to be writable by the world even before
sticky bit comes into play. I may be wrong but 0755 means nobody but root can
create files in /tmp, which would render the system unusable.

Quoting Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:

> Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
> > smgl-fhs is to make sure we have an FHS-compliant set of directories.
> > We had a few spells that expected them so chroot creation is helped by
> > having a single spell handle it -- it appears you've found a bug in how
> > it sets permissions.  I thought it wasn't going to mess with permissions
> > unless it has to create a new directory there, but apparently it mangles
> > permissions.  Eric, what did you do now?
>
> Followed the FHS 2.2 exactly. ;) (well, with default perms 0755). They don't
> mention the sticky bit for /tmp: 
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.15.html
> nor /var/tmp: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-5.15.html