Re: Bug#444232: base-files: /var/tmp was 755 after a fresh install but should be 1777.

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

reassign 444232 debian-installer
thanks

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Dieter Brüggemann wrote:

> Package: base-files
> Version: 4
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> /var/tmp was 755 after a fresh install but should be 1777.
> 
> It took me one day to find out why <alt gr> was not working within a
> freenx session.  This is because nxagent (part of NX server) calls
> xkbcomp which tries to write to /var/tmp with the rights of the
> logged in user.

base-files has /var/tmp as 1777:

$ dpkg -c base-files_4_i386.deb | grep var/tmp
drwxrwxrwt root/root         0 2006-10-28 16:06 ./var/tmp/

so this is not a bug in base-files.

I'm reassigning to debian-installer for now.