Gregor Maier grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> The sticky bit allows all users to create files in this directory (that's what
> tmp is for) but only the user who created the file can remove / edit it.
Just to pick a small nit: That's not entirely correct. Deleting a file
(or creating one, for that matter) is a function of directory permissions.
To create or delete, outright, a file, you need write permissions in the
*directory* where the file resides. Editing a file which already exists is
a function of file permissions. If you have write permissions to a file
that is in a directory where you don't have write permissions, you can edit
the file, though you can't delete it.
Hope this clears it up a bit. :-)
--Dave
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