Re: permissions for /tmp

1999-09-11 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 06:59:12PM -0400, Marshal Wong wrote: Could somebody send me the long listing of the root directory? I need the proper permissions for /tmp since I fiddled around with it, and now all the permissions are wrong. Thanks! Marshal There was a discussion about this

RE: permissions for /tmp

1999-09-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Sep-99 Marshal Wong wrote: Could somebody send me the long listing of the root directory? I need the proper permissions for /tmp since I fiddled around with it, and now all the permissions are wrong. Thanks! Here ya go. root Description: Binary data

Re: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-26 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Tue, 25 May, 1999 à 11:51:00PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: Pollywog wrote: On 25-May-99 scratch wrote: The sticky bit (chmod +t) on a directory just makes it so that anyone can wr ite to that directory but not modify files they did not make. Not quite. It does

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:32:36PM +0200, moron wrote: I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing permissions with chmod a+w /tmp from root solves the problem. (I tried creating a /tmp

RE: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 moron wrote: I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing permissions with chmod a+w /tmp from root solves the problem. (I tried creating a /tmp directory in my home directory but

sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-25 Thread scratch
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created, or am I way off here? Thanks, -- scratch --:: Nico Galoppo

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread moron
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:32:36PM +0200, moron wrote: I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing permissions with chmod a+w /tmp from root solves the problem. (I tried creating a /tmp

RE: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 scratch wrote: On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created, or am I way off here? The sticky bit (chmod

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 moron wrote: Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. Pardon my ignorance, but what the hell is the sticky bit? Sounds disgusting :) David chmod +t directory I don't recall the numeric equivalent but I believe someone gave it in a previous post. -- Andrew

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 Pollywog wrote: On 25-May-99 moron wrote: Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. Pardon my ignorance, but what the hell is the sticky bit? Sounds disgusting :) David chmod +t directory I don't recall the numeric equivalent but I believe someone gave it in a

Re: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
Pollywog wrote: On 25-May-99 scratch wrote: On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created, or am I way

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Brad
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote: c) some other program you installed (from source or tar ball) has changed it. i accidentally did that once. Most tar filed i've come across create a single directory for all the files contained, but this one didn't. It did change the permissions on '.',