Re: Should /tmp be world writable?
On 26 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 26-Sep-2001 Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
> /tmp should (most would say must) be set to chmod 1777. daemons who run as
> nobody write there, your programs write there, cronjobs write there, etc.
>
>
This is certainly my experience. But Debian seems to set it up initially
as chmod 755, unless I changed it myself (don't think I did).
Anthony
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