Re: right permission set for /tmp

[Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:35:39PM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
> > > ll -d /tmp
> > > drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4096 2007-07-03 16:09 /tmp
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >       
> > I follow the owner has rwx and the group has rwx but the World has rwt. 
> > I'm not sure what t is but I will find out.
> >     
>
> It's the sticky bit - means only the file owner can delete any files in the
> directory - it's set using chmod 1777 /tmp
>
>   
   That is all I could learn with man chmod and it didn't define what a 
sticky bit is :-)

Karl