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SubjectRe: what's next for the linux kernel?
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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