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 _______________________________________________ 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"
