right permission set for /tmp

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Tue Jul 3 22:05:48 UTC 2007


Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> What should it be the correct set of permissions for /tmp on a fc7 system?
> Does this change if /tmp is itself a mounted filesytem or not?
> I just verified that on my fc7 I have now
>
> $ ll -d /tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 46 1000 users 36864 2007-07-03 23:10 /tmp
>
> where user id 1000 is not assigned to any user..... and so it seems 
> only root can wrtite to it....
> I recently had a power failure and I needed to fsck my fs.
>
> I think that the problem I posted at
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-July/msg00433.html
> could be related with these wrong settings....
> Thanks
>
I did the usual test I run on /tmp. As a user I cp file /tmp and it went 
there fine. I went to /tmp and wrote a test message and it was saved in 
/tmp. There is nothing wrong with permissions.

Karl




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