Re: Question about pop3 and access rights to /tmp directory.

[Jan Carlson <janc iname com>]

KThorpe wrote:
> 
> I've had to open write access to the /tmp directory for all users to make
> pop3
> work (imap-4.1.final). Is this a security problem or should /tmp be open in
> the
> first place?

Yes.  The normal setup is:

drwxrwxrwt  13 root     root         5120 Sep 30 16:17 /tmp

The t flag prevents users from deleting each other's files in /tmp.

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Jan Carlson  janc iname com  Scarborough, Ontario, Canada