Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751102AbVJFPnS (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:43:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751108AbVJFPnS (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:43:18 -0400 Received: from 30.Red-80-36-33.staticIP.rima-tde.net ([80.36.33.30]:28327 "EHLO linalco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751102AbVJFPnR (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:43:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:41:40 +0200 From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton , Marc Perkel , Nix , 7eggert@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-ID: <20051006154140.GA4833@linalco.com> References: <4TiWy-4HQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4U0XH-3Gp-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <87k6gsjalu.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <4343E611.1000901@perkel.com> <20051005152447.GD10538@lkcl.net> <20051005153006.GD8011@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20051005154226.GI10538@lkcl.net> <20051005155516.GF7949@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051005155516.GF7949@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> X-Edited-With-Muttmode: muttmail.sl - 2001-09-27 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1268 Lines: 42 On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:55:16AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:42:26PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > i have no idea. as a user, i just did rm -fr /tmp/* (sorry - not > > rm -fr /tmp) and it worked. > > > > as a user. > > > > not root. > > Then some admin didn't qualify for root having apparently removed the t > bit from /tmp making it a world writeable dir. Ouch. > > > they weren't dumb enough to give it to me. > > But they made /tmp world writeable it seems. Impresive. :) Silly accidents like that happen. A lazy tarballer in action: # ls -ld foo drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Oct 6 17:34 foo # cd foo # tar cf ../foo.tar . And too sleepy root who blindly untars to /tmp # ls -ld tmp drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 Oct 6 17:34 tmp # tar xf foo.tar # ls -ld tmp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Oct 6 17:36 tmp woops. -- Ragnar Hojland - Project Manager Linalco "Specialists in Linux and Free Software" http://www.linalco.com Tel: +34-91-4561700 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/