Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 21:46:20 +0200 (SAST) From: Willie Viljoen <will@laserfence.net> To: Alex Popa <razor-bsd-security@ldc.ro> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange behaviour on /tmp Message-ID: <20020323214535.Y212-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> In-Reply-To: <20020323214227.A37349@ldc.ro>
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The mode 1777 turns on the sticky bit, hence, any write to /tmp is created as the owner of /tmp. On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Alex Popa wrote: > I have /tmp mode 1777, and mounted like this in fstab: > "/dev/something tmp ufs rw,nosuid,nodev 2 2" > > The thing I am noticing is that all files created under /tmp get > to be created as group wheel, no matter of the permissions of the > directory they are created in, or the user that creates them. > > Is this expected behaviour? > > I am running -STABLE, FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Thu Mar 7 22:11:39 EET 2002 > Cvsup was done two hours before the compilation time. > > Any ideas? > > ------------+------------------------------------------ > Alex Popa, | "Artificial Intelligence is > razor@ldc.ro| no match for Natural Stupidity" > ------------+------------------------------------------ > "It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. > It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > > -- Willie Viljoen Private IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60, a/h +27 51 522 44 36 +27 82 404 03 27 will@laserfence.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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