right permission set for /tmp

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Tue Jul 3 23:03:05 UTC 2007


Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:35:39PM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>> ll -d /tmp
>>> drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4096 2007-07-03 16:09 /tmp
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>> I follow the owner has rwx and the group has rwx but the World has rwt. 
>> I'm not sure what t is but I will find out.
>>     
>
> It's the sticky bit - means only the file owner can delete any files in the
> directory - it's set using chmod 1777 /tmp
>
>   
    That is all I could learn with man chmod and it didn't define what a 
sticky bit is :-)

Karl




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