[Gllug] /tmp query was sudo query

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Thu Feb 7 21:23:54 UTC 2002


On Tue, 05 Feb 2002, Ian Northeast muttered drunkenly:
> No, you are not being insanely stupid, or if you are so is everyone who
> produces Unix systems (Sun, IBM etc.). All Unix(-like) systems I have
> ever seen have 777 on /tmp by default, even the super paranoid OpenBSD.
> And most - everything I have seen recently - have the sticky bit. ITIR
> that some systems 10 years or so ago omitted this, but this is stupid.

Let me guess; it broke the world?

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 that it uses less stable.' --- Bryan Parkoff being very comprehensible

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