Re: Bad permissions on /tmp

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:

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> On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:51:44PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> >      After upgrading my potato box from a 12/31/99 mirror I found the
> > permissions on /tmp were drwxr-xr-x .  This prevented gnus from
> > writing a temporarya file when it tied to send mail.  I'm sure I
> > didn't change them manually.  I have reset them to drwxrwxrwt, which
> > stops the problem.
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> >      Just a heads-up to check the permissions on /tmp after upgrading.
> > I don't know which package caused this.
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> You didn't happen to untar anything in /tmp, did you?

     Yes, I did.  I remember now that one should make a subdirectory
in /tmp to untar something in, but I forgot it this time.  Thanks for
reminding me.
 
> I've noticed by way of dpkg-source -x that the perms of the "." directory
> in a tarfile clobber the ones on the actual current directory.
> 
> Yes, this is a bug IMO, but I don't know if it has been reported.

Bob
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