[Gllug] /tmp query was sudo query

[Tom Gilbert]

* Iain Conochie (iain at thargoid.co.uk) wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > hmm, tricky, that wasnt quite what i wanted todo.  the file in question
> > is created in ~/tmp/ using mkstemp.  so there's no real way of knowing
> > what the file name is going to be.  and i dont really want to make tmp
> > 777.
> 
> Erm - maybe I am being insanly stupid, but why not???? Should not _every_
> user have r-w-x perms on temp?? Obviosly setyting the stick bit as not to
> allow a user to delete another users file in /tmp

Not that he said ~/tmp...

Tom.
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