Changeset 4848808

Timestamp:

03/23/2001 03:17:01 AM (23 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v3_0, v3_1, v3_2, v3_3, v4_0, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

abdeaad6

Parents:

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Message:

Text update

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• chapter03/creatingdirs.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter03/creatingdirs.xml

@@ -41 +41 @@
 enter the /root directory (the same a user would do with /home/username 
 directories). The second change is a mode 1777 for the tmp 
-directories. This way, any user can write data to the /tmp directory when
-needed. The sticky bit (the first bit in the 1777 mask) makes sure 
-users can't delete other users files which they normally can do, 
-because the directory is set in such a way that everybody (owner, group, 
-world) can write to that directory (the 777 in the bit mask)
+directories. This way, any user can write data to the /tmp directory but 
+cannot remove another user's files (the latter is caused by
+the socalled "sticky bit" - bit 1 of the 1777 bit mask).
 </para>