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From: rickf@pmafire.UUCP (rick furniss)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: B News' Directory permission problem in /tmp
Message-ID: <826@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 89 14:37:38 GMT
References: <8910220254.AA05389@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: rickf@pmafire.UUCP (Rick Furniss)
Organization: WINCO, INEL, Idaho
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   Read the manual about the C2 security regaurding the sticky bit use.
  /tmp comes with the sticky bit set, which controls access to deletions
etc. in that directory.  A very neat idea as far as I can see.
  You will probably have to remove the sticky bit to fix the problem.

Rick Furniss