Re: X login problems for users

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

> What is this tmp bit? thanks for the advice. have done, seems to work 
> fine.
From http://oldfield.wattle.id.au/luv/permissions.html


   The sticky bit - /tmp directory

Normally (without 't') any user who has write permission to a directory 
can delete any files in the directory regardless of who owns it, even if 
they can't read or write to the file.

With 't' set, only the owner of a file can delete it.

This is used on /tmp

bash> ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrw|t|  8 root   root    4096 Nov  2 19:27 /tmp

Commands
|chmod +t directory| 	Set the sticky bit on a directory
|chmod -t directory| 	Remove the sticky bit from a directory