From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 31 10:50:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03667 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:50:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03662 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:50:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id MAA20102; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 12:50:41 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 12:50:41 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Evren Yurtesen 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 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