Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:22:18 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> To: peter kok <peter@sweda.com.hk> Cc: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9902030821080.11212-100000@mercury.webnology.com> In-Reply-To: <36B80F5C.8998A8@sweda.com.hk>
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, peter kok wrote:
> do i change the tmp directory to 1777 (chmod tmp 1777)?
The /tmp directory already is mode 1777 by default.
> then, could the system page me 'filled up'?
Nope. You'd have to set up a paging system yourself, if that's something
you wanted to do. My main point was just that you should be watching your
systems one way or another.
Cheers,
Mick
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