| Jeff Abrahamson on 28 Dec 2004 23:57:43 -0000 |
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:10:34PM -0500, George Gallen wrote: > I am usually the only one who would be creating directories within > /tmp, with the exception of one other person, who I am pretty sure > hadn't created any files with the sticky bit set. Something fairly > recently must have reset the /tmp bits. Don't take this the wrong way, but this is a common mistake and not a very good trade-off to make in general. The unix security model is designed to protect you from yourself as well as to protect you from other people. The class of accident you can make is substantially reduced when you restrict yourself in what you can do. As a side benefit, if anyone else is using your machine or breaks in or if you do something next year that you didn't anticipate now, you are a bit more protected. Do as you like, of course, but it's in the "only a couple of drinks" category of reasoning for many of us. That said, I don't know why you've seen the files you have, but so many things write to /tmp, it may take some real detective work to find the origin of any given file. Why are you worried about it, though? -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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