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Sticky bit on /tmp

Dave_L's picture

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Does your MEPIS 6.0 install have the sticky bit set for /tmp ?

Mine does not, which seems like a bug, since /tmp is intended for
use by different users:

drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 8192 2006-11-21 10:19 tmp

If the sticky bit were set, it would be:

drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 8192 2006-11-21 10:19 tmp

The same applies to my MEPIS 3.3.1 install.

PS. I know that I can manually set the bit with "chmod o+t /tmp" or
"chmod 1777 /tmp".

PPS. The sticky bit is described in the man page for chmod, in case you
don't know what it is.