Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: File Permissions are incorrect. Security flaw in Linux | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:22:15 +0200 |
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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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