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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting 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 permissons 1777.

Ahh, you're right, sorry Sergey. ;) I setup /var/tmp 0777 and temp o+t only.

-sandalle

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