Re: Should /tmp be world writable?

[Romain Lerallut <rlerallut@free.fr>]

Thus spake Colin Watson on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:55:08AM -0500:
> 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.
> <...>
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

Couldn't that be turned into a lintian test ?
( and of course, 'if not , why ?' :)


Romain

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