Re: [PATCH] set sticky bit when creating /var/tmp mount-point
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:51:55PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 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.
Inclusing su'ing to a user. Why should /var/tmp stop working if s/he
does this? This is a trivial change, for an obvious purpose, with no
drawbacks, why're you wasting your time arguing about it?
Cheers,
aj
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