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- From: tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Tim Auckland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: tmp doesn't seem to be clearing. . .
- Keywords: tmp files hvtmp
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.215740.21937@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:57:40 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.120029.6372@eng.ufl.edu> <1992Sep15.042444.3062@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep15.042444.3062@midway.uchicago.edu>, popelka@odysseus.uchicago.edu (Glenn Popelka) writes:
- |> We just installed 4.1.2 on a few machines, and after noticing a large amount of
- |> ..getwd files in /tmp, found that the sticky bit is turned on by default for the
- |> /tmp directory. We turned it off.
-
- The sticky bit on /tmp is there to try to maintain an attempt at
- security by preventing users from deleting other users' files. It might
- help keep things clean if a user can just "rm -r /tmp/" but I don't
- think I'd like users doing that on my system.
-
- It should also be set on /var/tmp, but I think SunOS forgets that one by
- default.
-
- Tim.
-