Re: 755 permissions of /tmp

To: Alexander Shumakovitch <shurik@mpim-bonn.mpg.de>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: 755 permissions of /tmp
From: gsstark@mit.edu (Gregory S. Stark)
Date: 27 Jun 1998 16:10:16 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] ycqyauihahj.fsf@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: Alexander Shumakovitch's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 1998 20:58:35 +0200"
References: <[🔎] 19980626205835.52564@urania.mpim-bonn.mpg.de>

Alexander Shumakovitch <shurik@mpim-bonn.mpg.de> writes:
> 
>   blackshark# ls -ld /tmp
>   drwxrwxrwx   3 root     root         9216 Jun 26 20:41 /tmp

Incidentally, don't we want /tmp to be mode 1777 ? 
Otherwise users can delete other users' temporary files.

Does the default installation get this wrong, or is this persons machine
uniquely misconfigured?

greg

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