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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] xfree86 problem
  • Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:33:06 -0700

Quoting Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:29:44 -0400
> bebo DEMENCIA <beboblack AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > root@mafia:~# chmod 755 /var/
> > root@mafia:~# chmod 6666 /var/tmp/
> > root@mafia:~# ls -lahd /var
> > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 133 Oct 21 10:59 /var
> > root@mafia:~# ls -lahd /var/tmp
> > drwSrwSrw- 3 root root 26 Oct 10 12:05 /var/tmp
> > root@mafia:~#
> why the heck 6666?
> chmod 0777 /var/tmp is closer to the mark.
> we don't want it to be setuid/setgid, we want it to be rwxrwxrwx!
> So Far,
> Karsten

I had meant 666 not 6666. ;) That's what my /var/tmp is "defaulted" to. Does
Sorcery modify the permissions for us?

-sandalle

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