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Re: Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv. (atn: Corinna)
- From: "John Morrison" <john at morrison dot mine dot nu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:50:37 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv. (atn: Corinna)
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- Reply-to: john at morrison dot mine dot nu
On Sun, May 15, 2005 9:38 pm, Angelo Graziosi said:
>
> When loging as user without admn. priv.
> (e.g.: owner= Graziosi, group= Users)
> the standard bash shell (cygwin.bat) says:
>
> chmod: changing permissions of `/tmp': Permission denied
>
> This is caused by
>
> if [ -d "/tmp" ]; then
> chmod 1777 /tmp
> fi
>
> in /etc/profile.
>
> It assign the permission "t" to /tmp but this was already a problem
> with xorg-x11-xwin-6.8.2.0-1 and org-x11-xwin-gl-6.8.2.0-1.
> The next, 6.8.2.0-2, was released exactly to fix that problem.
> The solution was to not assign the "t" permission to /tmp and
> to whatever it contans!
>
> See:
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00076.html>
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00054.html>
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00053.html>
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00050.html>
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00049.html>
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00048.html>
>
> angelo.
Corinna, this was a change you asked for... what would you like me to do?
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-04/msg00206.html>
J.