[Gllug] /tmp query was sudo query

Iain Conochie iain at thargoid.co.uk
Tue Feb 5 16:02:38 UTC 2002


> 
> 
> 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

Iain

Linux phoenix 2.4.9
  4:00pm  up 2 days,  6:06,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00


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