From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 31 21:42:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA24571 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 21:42:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from turkey.ispro.net.tr (turkey.ispro.net.tr [195.174.18.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA24558 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 21:42:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by turkey.ispro.net.tr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA00935; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:41:56 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:41:56 +0200 (EET) From: Evren Yurtesen To: "Jasper O'Malley" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG programs could have been using $HOME/temp or something like that... would not it be more appropriate? On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > hello, > > why does /tmp directory has 777 permissions ? > > So there's an appropriate place for everyone to stick temp files. A lot of > programs break, or at least lose some functionality, if it doesn't have > 1777 permissions. > > > what if somebody fills this directory with stuff? > > Put it on it's own filesystem; put user quotas on it, as well. > > Cheers, > Mick > > The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com > Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral > Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message