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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:48:48 +0000
From:      Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        "Megias Sanchez, Jose Manuel" <JMegias@caja-granada.es>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with finger permission denied
Message-ID:  <20020305144848.GA93752@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <1A4723CDE42AD611B61200A0C9AA5F3729BB9D@correoex.caja-granada.es>
References:  <1A4723CDE42AD611B61200A0C9AA5F3729BB9D@correoex.caja-granada.es>

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On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:04:47PM +0100, Megias Sanchez, Jose Manuel wrote:
> > 
> > 	I've changed this and now the finger command is running ok. The
> > permissions now are:
> > drwxrwxrwx  9 root  wheel  1024 Mar  5 12:22 tmp
> 
> Umm, don't do that - I'd quickly do a "chmod 1777 /tmp" if I were you.
> 
> 	Thank you I'm making chmod 1777 to the /tmp directory, but what's
> the difference between chmod 1777 and chmod 777?.

777 lets anybody delete any file in the directory.
1777 only lets the owner delete a file in the directory.

Ceri

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