Re: Sessions

At 2003-08-16 22:45 +0000, Curt Zirzow wrote: >* Thus wrote Jaap van Ganswijk (ganswijk@xs4all.nl): >> At 2003-08-16 23:28 +0200, Peda wrote: >> >> When you have a shell login, try this: >> - cd /tmp >> - chown . <your_user_name> >> >> This probably gives an error warning. >> >> - chmod u+rw . > >Don't set your /tmp directoy to those settings. /tmp is a system >directory and should not be owned by any paticular user nor have rw >permissions for a paticular user. You're missing some points here: - When everything is organized okay, he can't make himself the owner of /tmp, so trying it doesn't hurt. - But it isn't organized okay and he is asking how he can check/change it. - It doesn't hurt when the /tmp directory is from a particular user as long as every one has read and write permission. Root and programs running with root-permissions can do what they want anyway. - If he would manage to own the /tmp directory, changing his own 'u'=user permissions don't affect the permissions of others, but it would help him to solve his problem (and isolate the problem in case he would want a more fundamental solution). >Refer to your OS manual He wrote that he had problems with his site (and not his server) so I assumed he was using the server of a hoster and not his own system. >or contact your system administrator and >have him set the proper permissions on /tmp Yes, as I also suggested he should contact his system administrator when he can't solve the problem using the described experiment. But when he is on a virtual private server like me (with no other users) he might also want to solve the problem himself in the manner that I described. On a virtual server each user has kind-of a complete Unix file-system for his personal use, fully separated from that of the other users. So each user has his own /tmp directory. It doesn't matter much who owns it then. In my case, my hoster already made me the owner of the /tmp directory for example. BTW. The disadvantage of this system is that whatever is in the /tmp directory is part of one's quotum and normally it isn't and one can use the /tmp directory to use much more harddisk space than the quotum allows, for example for expanding compressed archives etc. Greetings, Jaap