[Gambas-user] gambas writing to /tmp

[Radoslav Dejanovic]

On Saturday 19 April 2003 11:54 pm, Charlie wrote:
> May be that is only a special Knoppix, and don't apear on other Linux
> systems, but writing to /tmp and having no right for in my case means no
> working with gambas.
> I had a look to the properties of /tmp on 3 differend Linux-system, they
> are allways the same.

/tmp directory is designed to be a local scrapbook for all users and daemons, 
so it should be open for everyone. Now, there are some known issues with 
everyone being able to fully access that directory (some userland security 
issues and some race conditions), but it shouldn't be of concern. As far as I 
know Knoppix, it is designed to run from CD and keep /tmp in RAM disk, as 
well as other directories. If there's something like rwx------ for your /tmp 
directory, you can change it to allow other users to access it (chmod 777 
/tmp), then add sticky bit if you like. That should fix that problem, and as 
far as I remember, there is some possibility to save state of your Knoppix on 
a floppy disk so you can reuse it next time you boot to Knoppix... my 0.02€

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Radoslav Dejanović
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