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Date:      Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:43:54 +1000
From:      "J. 'LoneWolf' Mattsson" <lonewolf-freebsd@earthmagic.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Left-over directory when asked to remove /var/tmp/temproot
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20021012154154.0298a6e8@helios.earthmagic.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021011230255.O68599-100000@view.scoundrelz.net>

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At 23:16 11/10/2002 -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote:
>P. S.: interestingly, there's also a /var/empty that's also schg.

This is used by sshd when running in privilege separation mode. If I 
understand things correctly, the part that has got root privs chroot's into 
that directory, and the schg flag on the directory ensures that noone is 
able to put in any "toys" in that directory.

Cheers,
/Johny



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