Re: Should /tmp be world writable?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:12:34AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 26 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > /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).

I've heard of this happening before. If you manage to track it down to a
particular package, please make sure a bug is filed against it.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]