Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:13:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi errors... unable to edit my .shrc file Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208231709530.31907-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net> In-Reply-To: <20020823233344.87510.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > --- Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> wrote: > > Make sure the symlinks from /var/tmp are correct and the permissions are > > like this: > > drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 512 Aug 23 15:31 tmp/ > > > > If not, do a "chmod 1777 /var/tmp" (for example) to fix it. > > > > /var/tmp/vi.recover should have the same permissions too. > > this is what i was going to do... but someone said this would cause > problems because it would allow others to delete tmp files that did not > belong to them. > > should i go ahead and to it anyways? > > -Sameer > By definition, the tmp area is a world writable scratch directory. General users would not be able to remove files owned by other users unless the file permissions allowed them to. Also, a lot of programs count on permissions to be set a certain way, which you just found out that vi is one of them. So yes, change the permissions on /tmp, /usr/tmp, /var/tmp to be 1777. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Software Corp. http://www.urchin.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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