From owner-freebsd-security Sat Mar 23 22: 5:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B22A37B400 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:05:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id E61B85346; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 07:05:31 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Bjoern Engels Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange behaviour on /tmp References: <20020323214535.Y212-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 24 Mar 2002 07:05:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bjoern Engels writes: > 1777 means only the owner of a file can delete it. I bet /tmp > has been set up 2777 or 3777 so all new files are being associated > with the group /tmp belongs to (wheel). This is BSD, not SysV. Files get their directory's group by default. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message