On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:12:18AM +0700, Alexey Salmin wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net> wrote: > > On Sunday 23 May 2010 18:46:29 Tom Furie wrote: > >> Just for the sake of argument *why* is setting /tmp rw- a bad thing? > >> Surely if you put a file there, you know the full pathname, why would > >> you need to list or search /tmp? > > > > Well, I don't actually know for sure that it's bad, but it seems > > to invite broken-ness. > > Hmm. You're talking about why setting -wx on a /tmp is a bad thing: it > will work but it may break some software trying to do ls /tmp, that's > true. > But Tom was asking why it's bad to set rw- which is much much worse > because you need an x on a dir bit not to just cd but to access its > contents in any way. Oops, -wx is what I was thinking of when I both read and replied to Andrew's post. Cheers, Tom -- I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms "correct" and "proper", neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture. :-) -- Larry Wall in <199706251602.JAA01786@wall.org>
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