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[rm at mamma.varadinet.de]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:54:17PM -0700, D. Stimits wrote:
> John Karns wrote:
[...]
> > ... what's the trailing 't' mean?  And how is it set?
> > 
> That is the sticky bit. One way to set it is to cd to /tmp as root, and
> run:
> chmod 1777 .
> 
> This will set tmp as readable and writeable and executable to all users,
> plus the sticky bit will be on. Normally if you have a directory with so
> many permissions, any user could come in and delete or alter the files
> of another user without them knowing, thus breaking things or adding
> covert changes. The sticky bit allows all users to do anything in
> creating new files, or altering their own, but disallows them from
> deleting or altering files that pre-exist and are not owned by them.
> It's a playground with a supervisor, so to speak.

Sorry, i should have mentioned this in my posting.

 Ralf