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SubjectRe: File Permissions are incorrect. Security flaw in Linux
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:

> ...So anything you put into "/tmp", for instance, can be deleted
> by anybody. This is the Unix way.

...Unless your /tmp is marked properly with +t (sticky bit), so that you
can only delete your own files.

Andreas.

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