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Re: /tmp permissions?



Traditionally, /tmp should probably be chmod 1777, owned by root.root. (The
1 makes it impossible to delete other user's files..)

On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:58:01PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote:
> I was running xdm and kde just happily and I decided to kick up to xdm
> windows.  No problem.  Well, for some reason, KDE now complains that it
> needs write permissions to the /tmp dir.  What are the permissions and
> ownership supposed to be for /tmp and does anyone know HOW the permissions
> could've gotten changed?
> 
> 								Rob
> 
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