Why does Samba requires 777 permissions on /tmp

[Bob Eager]

On Sat, 18 May 2013 19:52:19 -0500
sindrome <sindrome at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for that tip.  I was hoping that was the root of it but upon
> looking at my path, I don't have /tmp in there.  II used to have the
> sticky bit set on there. I just re-set it but portupgrade still keeps
> barking because it's world writable.  It seems that the conflict is
> Samba needs it to be world writable and portupgrade hates it.

I have /tmp set to 1777, I use portupgrade and samba and it works
fine...

Perhaps check the setting of PATH with 'env' just in case it's getting
set somewhere else?