Re: Sessions

* Thus wrote Jaap van Ganswijk (ganswijk@xs4all.nl): > 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. True, it wont hurt, but why suggest to incorrectly do something that is most likely going to fail anyway. > - But it isn't organized okay and he is asking how > he can check/change it. again, fixing it incorrectly isn't the solution. > - 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. Yes it does hurt, /tmp should only be set up to whoever created the file can read write to it, no one else can touch the file. > - 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). The problem is already isolated. the /tmp directory needs to have the correct permissions. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."