From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 6:49:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFFF37B416 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 06:49:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([80.4.14.162] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16iGFU-0000QO-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:49:04 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16iGFE-000OQN-00; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:48:48 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:48:48 +0000 From: Ceri To: "Megias Sanchez, Jose Manuel" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with finger permission denied Message-ID: <20020305144848.GA93752@submonkey.net> References: <1A4723CDE42AD611B61200A0C9AA5F3729BB9D@correoex.caja-granada.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1A4723CDE42AD611B61200A0C9AA5F3729BB9D@correoex.caja-granada.es> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:04:47PM +0100, Megias Sanchez, Jose Manuel wrote: > > > > I've changed this and now the finger command is running ok. The > > permissions now are: > > drwxrwxrwx 9 root wheel 1024 Mar 5 12:22 tmp > > Umm, don't do that - I'd quickly do a "chmod 1777 /tmp" if I were you. > > Thank you I'm making chmod 1777 to the /tmp directory, but what's > the difference between chmod 1777 and chmod 777?. 777 lets anybody delete any file in the directory. 1777 only lets the owner delete a file in the directory. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message