On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:41:52PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: > > If I didn't have important reason to get the system up quickly, I'd just > work away in single-user mode. If /var/tmp is only writeable by root, > some critical applications won't work properly. bzzzt. thanks for playing. single-user mode has only one user remember, and that user is root, who can write anything. therefore the /tmp directories don't need to be world writable in single-user mode. > Well, /home and /usr/local have a similar problem, but I hadn't noticed > them until now. But that has a much lower impact, unlike the /var/tmp > problem, which I discovered early one morning when it bit me in the arse. oh now /home and /usr/local are supposed to be world writable? > Provided the default permissions are sensible. The ones created by > dbootstrap for /var/tmp are not. i have yet to see any proof of this. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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