Re: Should /tmp be world writable?

2001-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 05:05:27PM +0200, Romain Lerallut wrote: > Thus spake Colin Watson on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:55:08AM -0500: > > I've heard of this happening before. If you manage to track it down to a > > particular package, please make sure a bug is filed against it. > > Couldn't that be

Re: Should /tmp be world writable?

2001-09-26 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Colin Watson on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:55:08AM -0500: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:12:34AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 26 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > /tmp should (most would say must) be set to chmod 1777. daemons who run > > > as > > > nobody write there, you

Re: Should /tmp be world writable?

2001-09-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Sep 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:12:34AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 26 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > /tmp should (most would say must) be set to chmod 1777. daemons who run > > > as > > > nobody write there, your programs write there, cronjo

Re: Should /tmp be world writable?

2001-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:12:34AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 26 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > /tmp should (most would say must) be set to chmod 1777. daemons who run as > > nobody write there, your programs write there, cronjobs write there, etc. > > This is certainly my expe

Re: Should /tmp be world writable?

2001-09-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 26-Sep-2001 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I find that it's necessary to set /tmp world readable and writable, > > otherwise various programs that need to write to it can't do so (e.g. > > lynx). As this is a stand-alone machine connected only intermi

RE: Should /tmp be world writable?

2001-09-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Sep-2001 Anthony Campbell wrote: > I find that it's necessary to set /tmp world readable and writable, > otherwise various programs that need to write to it can't do so (e.g. > lynx). As this is a stand-alone machine connected only intermittently to > the net, it isn't a big security problem

Should /tmp be world writable?

2001-09-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
I find that it's necessary to set /tmp world readable and writable, otherwise various programs that need to write to it can't do so (e.g. lynx). As this is a stand-alone machine connected only intermittently to the net, it isn't a big security problem for me, but is this set-up incorrect and, if so