On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > It's a "good policy" for /tmp directory to have 777 permissions !? > With such permissions any user could write on that directory until even > there's no more space on device, rigth !? >
That's exactly what it is for (not writing till the disk is full though) - it is a place where any user can write files - most commonly used by programs for temporary space or some sort of lock file. It it generally up to the administrator to clean up /tmp (Debian empties it on reboot, but if you're into uptime you'll have to come up with something else). Steve Tremblett QNX Technical Support
