Re: severe bug:Failure to start X related to /tmp permissions
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:42:32PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> ls -l /:
> drwxr-xr-x root root tmp
>
> This is the problem.
>
> It's an extremely severe bug.
Not really, it's easily reversible.
> Settings that might have influenced this:
> Users cannot view each others $HOME directory
> 'man' is not setuid man
Neither should have influenced this. (I'm pretty certain the latter
didn't, at least, having been responsible for the implementation of that
option.)
> Actions:
> How do I fix this appropriately?
'chmod 1777 /tmp'
> To which package to I submit a bug report?
> How do I find this package if not known?
I don't know. There's always "general" ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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