Should /tmp be world writable?

[Anthony Campbell <a.campbell@doctors.org.uk>]

I find that it's necessary to set /tmp world readable and writable,
otherwise various programs that need to write to it can't do so (e.g.
lynx). As this is a stand-alone machine connected only intermittently to
the net, it isn't a big security problem for me, but is this set-up
incorrect and, if so, what should it be?

Anthony


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