Hi, On Sun, 19 May 2013 07:06:46 +0100 Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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 I only wanted to note that it is octal. > 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. I did not think of this at all when I have written my response. Of course, it has to be set and it is set on my machine. I was focusing only on the fact that all users of a system must be able to write to /tmp. Erich > > Cheers, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
