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Date:      24 Mar 2002 07:05:30 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Bjoern Engels <bjoern.engels@mail.isis.de>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strange behaviour on /tmp
Message-ID:  <xzpeliacxg5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <E16otir-000HR6-00@pumaman.dyndns.org>
References:  <20020323214535.Y212-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> <E16otir-000HR6-00@pumaman.dyndns.org>

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Bjoern Engels <bjoern.engels@mail.isis.de> writes:
> 1777 means only the owner of a file can delete it. I bet /tmp
> has been set up 2777 or 3777 so all new files are being associated
> with the group /tmp belongs to (wheel).

This is BSD, not SysV.  Files get their directory's group by default.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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