Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:41:56 +0200 (EET) From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990201074116.930A-100000@turkey.ispro.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9901311247480.19636-100000@mercury.webnology.com>
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programs could have been using $HOME/temp or something like that... would not it be more appropriate? On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > hello, > > why does /tmp directory has 777 permissions ? > > So there's an appropriate place for everyone to stick temp files. A lot of > programs break, or at least lose some functionality, if it doesn't have > 1777 permissions. > > > what if somebody fills this directory with stuff? > > Put it on it's own filesystem; put user quotas on it, as well. > > Cheers, > Mick > > The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com > Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral > Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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