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Date:      Sun, 19 May 2013 15:14:35 -0400
From:      Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why does Samba requires 777 permissions on /tmp
Message-ID:  <20130519151435.3a141585@scorpio>
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On Sun, 19 May 2013 13:34:49 -0500
sindrome articulated:

> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 19 May 2013 16:52, "Jerry" <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 19 May 2013 09:57:52 -0500
> > > sindrome articulated:
> > >
> > > > I checked everywhere (in .cshrc etc..) as well as "echo $PATH"
> > > > and /tmp is not in there.  I'm not sure where it's picking
> > > > up /tmp in the path
> > >
> > > Same here. I have no idea where it is getting "tmp" from. At
> > > least it doesn't appear to be causing any problems.
> >
> > Is that with portupgrade too?
> >
> Chris,
> 
> I'm not sure I understand your question.  Portupgrade barks about
> the /tmp directory being world writable. I pasted the exact errors
> earlier in this thread.  I looked in my path and can't find /tmp in
> there and can't figure how to get rid of ruby complaining unless I
> remove the writable permissions. When I do that my windows desktop
> can't authenticate to my samba server.  There has to be a root of
> this problem to make them both work.  Is there some other place
> portupgrade is having /tmp amended on without it being in my $PATH?

If I am not mistaken, portupgrade only started with this BS about 6
months ago after it, itself was updated. It might be something hard
coded by error into the program. I reported this once before to the
port maintainer <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>; however, I never received a
response. Maybe I should file a PR against it.

-- 
Jerry ♔

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