Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I believe MacOS maps /etc and /tmp to a private area for the user. > They are not world readable/writable. I believe Apple did it for > hardening. > > Here's from a MacOS X 10.5 machine I have: > > $ ls -l /etc /tmp > lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 Feb 10 2015 /etc -> private/etc > lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 Feb 10 2015 /tmp -> private/tmp
/tmp is world-writable, of course: $ ls -lLd /etc /tmp drwxr-xr-x@ 124 root wheel 3968 27 Jun 01:25 /etc drwxrwxrwt@ 8 root wheel 256 18 Jul 14:38 /tmp Bruno