Re: /tmp permissions changed!

1999-11-18 Thread Onno
No problem here... I installed from the potato boot flops. Regards, Onno At 03:10 AM 11/19/99 +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: Hi, all of a sudden I realized the /tmp permissions had changed to: 2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:57 tmp/ so, I changed it back to sticky with: #

Re: /tmp permissions?

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Traditionally, /tmp should probably be chmod 1777, owned by root.root. (The 1 makes it impossible to delete other user's files..) On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:58:01PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > I was running xdm and kde just happily and I decided to kick up to xdm > windows. No problem. Well, for

Re: /tmp permissions?

1999-09-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:58:01PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > I was running xdm and kde just happily and I decided to kick up to xdm > windows. No problem. Well, for some reason, KDE now complains that it > needs write permissions to the /tmp dir. What are the permissions and > ownership suppos

Re: /tmp permissions?

1999-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > I was running xdm and kde just happily and I decided to kick up to xdm > windows. No problem. Well, for some reason, KDE now complains that it > needs write permissions to the /tmp dir. What are the permissions and > ownership supposed to be for /tmp and

Re: /tmp permissions

1998-09-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:57:08PM -0600, Phil Humpherys wrote: > > Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's a "good policy" for /tmp directory to have 777 > > permissions !? With such permissions any user could write on > > that directory until even > there's no more space on dev

Re: /tmp permissions

1998-09-14 Thread Phil Humpherys
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's a "good policy" for /tmp directory to have 777 > permissions !? With such permissions any user could write on > that directory until even > there's no more space on device, > rigth !? Yup, though if he's not the root user, he won't be able to

Re: /tmp permissions (thanks! :) )

1998-09-13 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Thanks for all who reply to me explaining that question. At the moment, i'd a better idea. :) Best regards, Nuno Carvalho

Re: /tmp permissions

1998-09-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: : Hi, : : I'de some questions about /tmp directory: : : My /tmp directory permissions are: : : rwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Sep 13 14:17 tmp : : ... meanwhile chmod manual says that "t" permission is to: save program : tex

Re: /tmp permissions

1998-09-13 Thread Steve Tremblett
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > It's a "good policy" for /tmp directory to have 777 permissions !? > With such permissions any user could write on that directory until even > there's no more space on device, rigth !? > That's exactly what it is for (not writing till the disk is f