On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 15:16 +1030, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >>> What's the permissions of the /tmp directory? I've seen that sort > >>> of thing in prior releases, because there was a problem there. > >>> > >>> [tim@suspishus ~]$ ls -dl /tmp > >>> drwxrwxrwt 53 root root 4096 2009-03-03 01:01 /tmp > > > Craig White: > > since user 'root' is OK, I suspect that you probably are having an > > issue with older settings and you can temporarily move them out of the > > way... > > Just going off on a tangent - when I noticed this issue, several Fedora > releases ago, thanks to the /tmp permissions that I mention, root could > still log in (graphically), but users couldn't. I expect because root > could still create the files it wanted in the way that it wanted them. ---- and it made a lot of sense when you suggested it but he verified that up-thread. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
