Re: LYNX-DEV fotemods.zip update

[Greg Marr]

At 11:09 AM 5/21/97 -0500, Foteos Macrides wrote:
>       As far as "privacy" issues associated with the Unix /tmp
>design are concerned, even systems which now have the "sticky bit"
>feature typically don't use it.  I've yet to get on a Unix system
>in which I couldn't read any file in the /tmp tree, and there was
>no need for spoofing via links to do it. :) :)

As I understand the "Unix /tmp design", the sticky bit has nothing to do
with whether or not you could read the files, but whether or not you could
delete them.  /tmp usually has drwxrwxrwt permissions, which means that
anybody can write to the directory, anybody can read it, but people can
only delete files they own.  The privacy aspect is enforced by the files
and subdirectories not having world-read access.  Is there some other
aspect of the sticky bit that I am unaware of?




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Greg Marr
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