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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:52:19 +0100
From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
To: Brent Bailey <misterb@bmyster.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: permissions issue  help ?!?!
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:03:10 -0500 (EST)
Brent Bailey <misterb@bmyster.com> wrote:

Hi,


> I have another FBSD box thats working fine ..and the permissions on
> its/tmp dir are:drwxrwxrwt   root  wheel  /tmp
> 
> now to restore the permissions on the broken box ..i did
> #chmod 777 /tmp

What you want is chmod 1777 /tmp
 
> however im not sure how to get the "t"  on the permissions back (im
> not even sure what the "t" means)

t is the sticky bit, it means that files and directories created inside
/tmp are owned by whoever creates them. See man 8 sticky for detailed info.

Cheers,
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        Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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