Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:41:40 +0200 | From | Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:55:16AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:42:26PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > i have no idea. as a user, i just did rm -fr /tmp/* (sorry - not > > rm -fr /tmp) and it worked. > > > > as a user. > > > > not root. > > Then some admin didn't qualify for root having apparently removed the t > bit from /tmp making it a world writeable dir. Ouch. > > > they weren't dumb enough to give it to me. > > But they made /tmp world writeable it seems. Impresive. :)
Silly accidents like that happen. A lazy tarballer in action:
# ls -ld foo drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Oct 6 17:34 foo # cd foo # tar cf ../foo.tar .
And too sleepy root who blindly untars to /tmp
# ls -ld tmp drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 Oct 6 17:34 tmp # tar xf foo.tar # ls -ld tmp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Oct 6 17:36 tmp
woops.
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