I find that it's necessary to set /tmp world readable and writable, otherwise various programs that need to write to it can't do so (e.g. lynx). As this is a stand-alone machine connected only intermittently to the net, it isn't a big security problem for me, but is this set-up incorrect and, if so, what should it be?
Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Debian GNU/Linux (Windows-free zone). For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 130 book reviews, go to http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. [Laurens van der Post]
