Michael Sierchio <ku...@tenebras.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Yuri <y...@rawbw.com> wrote: > > User john is a member of both webcamd and vboxusers: > > # grep john /etc/group > > webcamd:*:145:john > > vboxusers:*:920:john > > > > When the file /tmp/my-test is owned by webcamd, user john can > > touch it ok: > > $ ls -l /tmp/my-test ; touch ?/tmp/my-test > > -rw-rw---- ?1 vboxusers ?vboxusers ?0 Aug 15 12:54 /tmp/my-test > > > > But when /tmp/my-test is owned by webcamd, user john gets an > > error: > > $ ls -l /tmp/my-test ; touch ?/tmp/my-test > > -rw-rw---- ?1 webcamd ?webcamd ?0 Aug 15 13:02 /tmp/my-test > > touch: /tmp/my-test: Permission denied > > > > Why does this error occur? Two groups seem identical. Just > > different group ids. > > /tmp has the sticky bit set. man 8 sticky
On my 8.1 system, sticky(8) says: A directory whose `sticky bit' is set becomes ... a directory in which the _deletion_ of files is restricted. A file in a sticky directory may only be _removed_ or _renamed_ if ... [emphasis added] Nothing there about the sticky bit changing the permissions required to _overwrite_ a file, which is the subject of the current inquiry. Even if the sticky bit _did_ have some effect on overwriting a file, how would that explain the _different_ behavior of the two cases shown? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
