On 19/05/2013 03:56, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Your problem must be caused by something else. At least, I cannot > remember to ever have seen /tmp with a different setting than 0777.
I hope you mean 1777 (drwxrwxrwt) there. That sticky bit is important.
Without it there are a number of nasty attack possibilities involving
things like using a race condition and craftily modifying a sym-link to
trick root into overwriting an important file.
Cheers,
Matthew
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