FreeBSD Port: chpasswd-2.2.2

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed May 25 14:21:30 PDT 2005


On May 25, 2005, at 5:11 PM, hobby wrote:
> Hello "Ports"-team,
>
> i would like to inform you (after consultation with the developer  
> of this port) that you have to chmod 777 /var/tmp. otherwise this  
> port wont work and will print a errormessage, that he couldnt open  
> the tempfile.

/var/tmp is supposed to be sticky:

10-sec% grep tmp /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist
     tmp             mode=01777

This is the standard permissions used for /tmp and /var/tmp on almost  
all platforms.

-- 
-Chuck



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