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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!francenet.fr!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: changind file permissions for a symbolic link Date: 14 Jul 1996 12:20:43 GMT Organization: Usenet Canal Historique Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4saomr$4kg@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <01bb6d2a.1c8123e0$38673fcb@simonh.addease.com.au> <31E1DF64.41C67EA6@eramp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.freenix.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] In article <31E1DF64.41C67EA6@eramp.net>, Syntax <syntax@eramp.net> wrote: > Therefor, in order to set your /tmp link you will need to remove the > link and recreate it after setting the correct permissions on /usr/tmp. No, permissions on the link itself are irrelevant. Just set the permissions correctly on the target directory. > I have my /tmp set at lrwxr-xr-x and /usr/tmp set at drwxrwxrwx and Having any world-writable directory 777 is a bad idea because it opens many race condition related holes. Always use 1777 (drwxrwxrwt) for /tmp, /var/tmp and such. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-