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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 02:06:26PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting "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.
> <snip>
> 
> I had a few exceptions in there (namely /root, /var/tmp and /tmp): here's 
> what I
> had for /tmp (similar for /var/tmp):
> chmod  0777  $INSTALL_ROOT/var/tmp
> 
> So all I did was remove the sticky bit from what we normally have. I didn't
> change /tmp otherwise.
 
Actually you did ;)
The smgl-fhs spell did create /tmp like all other directories with 0755
and then added the sticky bit to it. Now it creates it with permissions
1777.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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